The Finance Minister Mr. Pranab Mukherjee has appealed to political leaders to keep aside politics from major economic decisions and said Parliament is not meant for disruptions.

Addressing a function in Mumbai, he said merely creating a situation where hard decisions cannot be taken will not help solve problems but will compound them. He admitted that there are problems of high inflation, rupee depreciation and less than expected growth and difficulties in maintaining fiscal deficit, but said these will have to be solved by ourselves.

Proceedings in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha in the first week of the Winter session that began on Tuesday last were paralysed over a host of issues including price rise, black money, FDI in retail and separate Telangana issue.