NEW DELHI: The meeting of the BJP's national executive, the ruling party's top decision making body, skirted the issue of motor fuel price spike, even as petrol and diesel rates continued to breach their daily records on the back of record fall in the rupee's value against the greenback and no decline in global crude prices.On Sunday, petrol price hit Rs 80.50 per litre and diesel touched its highest level of Rs 72.61 in Delhi where state taxes are among the lowest in the country. The prices are much higher in other metros, particularly in Mumbai, due to high VAT and other local levies. The prices have been continuously rising since mid-August as the rupee tested a new bottom against the dollar at 72, making crude imports costlier for refiners.While fuel prices remain on fire, pinching consumers ever harder, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad replied with a cryptic "no" when asked whether the issue figured in the national executive's two-day deliberations. When reporters sought to know when fuel prices would come down, HRD minister Prakash Javadekar replied, "People (in the government) are talking about it and the government will move with the right policy."To another question on how much motor fuels would cost in the 'New India' that the BJP was talking of creating by 2022, Javadekar did not hazard a guess and instead pointed out that inflation had stood within 5% in the last four years of the NDA government against 10% during the UPA's tenure. Motor fuel prices have 5% weightage in the inflation index and are guided by global crude prices. The Indian basket of crude averaged approximately $100 a barrel during the UPA-2 regime, while it averaged $56.43 in 2017-18, dipping to an average of $46.17 in 2015-16.The NDA government took advantage of the low oil prices to mop up resources by raising excise duty by Rs 11.77 alitre on petrol and Rs 13.47 on diesel in nine instalments between November 2014 and January 2016. The tax was cut by Rs 2 in October last year.