Onion Prices : is it ?FIXED? to divert attention?

It seems Union government has been successful in diverting media-focus and public-attention on big scams like CWG-2010, 2-G spectrum and Adarsh Housing scam etc by artificially created price-rise of onions and subsequent fast-track steps to check such a sponsored price-rise. Almost all news-channels including the English ones on 21.12.2010 sidelined scam-stories by focussing mainly on price-rise of onions, an aspect usually favourite to Hindi news-channels only.

In a country where everyone and every aspect is liable to be ?fixed?, it seems price-increase of onions was also ?fixed? to successfully achieve dicerting attention of media and public from scams and scandals.