Anti-inflation measures will have impact in few weeks: Congress

New Delhi, Apr 4 (UNI) With the inflation rate surging to a three year high at 7.0 per cent, the Congress today said the impact of the anti-inflation measures taken by the Centre would be known within a few weeks.

"You will see the collective, cumulative impact in the next few weeks," AICC spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi said, while highlighting the six major measures taken by the Centre to bring down prices of essential commodities and rising inflation.

Asked to specify the timeframe when the impact would be felt, he said he would not be able to give any specific date, but said it will happen "within a shortest appropriate time." UNI SH SP KP1904