New Delhi:FinanceMinister P Chidambaram could be a worried man as pressure is building againstthe UPA Government on the issue of price rise ahead of the Budget session ofParliament amid strong demands for urgent measures to check spirallinginflation.

Sharad Pawar-led NCP is the latest one to ask the Congress-led coalition to getits act together on the issue of price rise.

"Price rise is the real problem for our government. We should try tocontain inflation and control spiralling prices," NCP spokesman D PTripathi said.

RJD leader and Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, whose partyis the second largest constituent of the UPA, has already described the pricesituation as "worrisome".

In fact leaders in the Congress, which is heading the coalition, are alsoconcerned over the price graph going up unhindered despite measures by theManmohan Singh government.

Congress Parliamentary Party sources said that a meeting of the CPP Executiveis being held ahead of the budget in which the Finance Minister would be askedto be present amid indications that the party would make a plain breast of itsconcerns on the economic front at the meet.

Ruling party circles are worried about the price line and its politicalfallout. Party chief Sonia Gandhi had asked the government to check the pricessome eight months ago and followed it up with a meeting of the party workingcommittee as also party Chief Ministers' meeting here on the issue.