The usually even-tempered Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee was today provoked into warning the Opposition

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lawmakers against ridiculing his sensitivity during a debate on inflation.

"I am from a village... I studied under a kerosene lamp till my 10th class... Commuted to school by walking, in today's terminology, 10 km everyday. Don't ridicule my sensitivity," said Mukherjee with folded hands when the Opposition members claimed that the Centre was trying to blame the states for price rise.

Born in Mirati village in West Bengal's Birbhum district, Mukherjee sought to know what according to the Opposition was sensitivity - raising kerosene prices from Rs 2 a litre to Rs 9 per litre (during the NDA regime) or increasing the prices from Rs 9 a litre to Rs 12 per litre?

The UPA government in June raised prices of kerosene by Rs 3 a litre, cooking gas by Rs 35 a cylinder and diesel by Rs a litre, besides freeing petrol prices from government control that made the fuel costlier by Rs 3 a litre.

Mukherjee was replying to the discussion on the Motion on Inflationary pressure on the economy.