‘India has moral duty to consumers’


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New Delhi: India is under no “moral conflict” in purchasing discounted Russian oil as the government has a duty to its consumers and will buy whatever is available in the global market, said Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri during an interview with CNN Monday. When asked if New Delhi has any “qualms” about continuing to buy large quantities of Russian oil amid the Ukraine war, Puri said, “Let me first try and correct your perspective. [When] we ended the financial year 2022, the purchases of Russian oil were not 2 per cent but 0.2 per cent. We still buy only...