Smart move...an analysis

It was still a 30 minute wait for the First Quarter Final Euro2008 match. I was counting seconds as i got addicted to football recently....thanks to Nilesh
Guess i am in that initial Josh on a new game. Thought of browsing through the channels and got stuck at a news channel as usual.
I do try to analyze political moves to some extent (personal level) but not an active analyst. I try to analyze the reason behind the moves and guess i solved the below one this time.

Was watching the news and observed a small alert saying Karnataka Govt has reduced the excise duty on Diesel and LPG.
Ignoring the news i continued my navigation. Then the thought came SMART MOVE'!!
Yeah when the Congress hiked the price, it must have gone through all pros and cons. All the congress led state govts announced slash in duty for petroleum products as soon as the central govt announced price hike.
The party even asked BJP led states to reduce the duties on state level. At that time i thought it was a smart move from Congress. But BJP did not in few states, and this was beyond my understanding.
The price was hiked and after two weeks of price hike the BJP led Govt announced slash in duties.
Now how is this a smarter move from BJP? The price hike heat was felt by the people all over India and the impact of hike was reduced by duty slashes at state level.
But BJP let the rates go up intentionally and then reduced the duties after people felt it. This compels a common man to feel that state govt has done more effort. Hence the conclusion, Nice move from BJP!!

Felt proud of myself and got back to ESPN. Germany vs Portugal. Messaged Nilesh to alert him that match is about to begin. I was supporting Germany...no reasons and guess he was supporting the Portuguese. The Portugal had the star factor advantage.
Germany were leading 2-0 after the first twenty minutes...again felt proud of myself siding the Germany. Germans entered semifinals with 3-2 lead. The time was almost 1.30AM and had to wake up early. Day ended in gud note with a couple of analysis going right...:)
Set to go on a weekend trip to Pune and Nashik a visit after almost 6 years. Last time i had been to nashik on office purpose for 3 weeks. Lemme see how the city has evolved in this period...