NEW DELHI -- The Indian government will battle both inflation and corruption, Indian President Pratibha Patil said in her address to parliament on Monday, confronting the two biggest issues that have rattled the Congress-led government and paralyzed policymaking.
Patil was speaking in parliament before the start of the budget session after the government caved in to months of opposition pressure to launch a parliamentary investigation into India's biggest corruption scandal in decades.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is accused of heading a corrupt government that sold access to the world's fastest growing mobile phone market at rock-bottom prices, depriving the state of billions of U.S. dollars and scaring off investors.
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