Chennai, March 27 -- Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MP Kanimozhi NVN Somu has questioned the timing of the Centre's move to slash excise duty on petrol and diesel, alleging that the decision was aimed at securing electoral gains rather than providing genuine relief.

"It is just for the sake of elections. We also see that the West Asia war has been going on. Just to hide what the Governmentt is incapable of...If we had been very cordial with Russia, all this 'hungama' would not have happened. Our PM has succumbed to Trump is the reality of all this reduction of the excise duty. These kinds of reductions have been requested by the Opposition and the DMK time and again in the Parliament. It was never done all these years. Why suddenly now?...