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There have been announcements of certain roll backs immediately after the presentation of the Budget, particularly relating to the price of LPG then and certain other things now. But this, though I welcome, is not a very healthy trend. This shows the muddled thinking of the Government not really being responsive to the people’s needs. It is the pressure exerted from within the party, which made the Finance Minister to succumb. Taking the example and alluding to a reference made by Shri L.K. Advani earlier in a different context, relating to the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance, he said the Government is in a ‘win-win’ situation. Let me tell the Government that it is now in a ‘lose-lose’ situation. You may have announced the concessions. But the people who voted you to power are now convinced that they were mistaken in doing so, that their future is not safe in your hands and that in your scheme of things they stand nowhere. You have given that message clear to them, whatever you may do now.