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Angry Mamata summons parliamentary party meet
on petrol price
Friday November 04, 2011 09:37:07 AM,
IANS
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 Fresh petrol price hike of Rs.1.80 per litre
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Kolkata: Angry over the
latest petrol price hike, Trinamool Congress - the second largest
constituent of the Congress-led ruling United Progressive Alliance
at the centre - has called an emergency parliamentary party
meeting here Friday to decide the party's future course of action.
"Earlier, we had strongly protested whenever the oil prices were
raised. We don't want to increase the burden on the masses, who
are already reeling under the pressure of escalating prices,"
Trinamool MP Kakali Ghosh Dastidar told IANS.
"Tomorrow our parliamentary party will meet at the party
headquarters, Trinamool Bhawan. There we will decide our stand,"
she said yesterday.
Trinamool general secretary and union Minister of State for
Shipping Mukul Roy said: "Let us hold the meeting. Then we will
spell out our stand."
The Trinamool has 18 Lok Sabha members.
Trinamool sources said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was
extremely peeved over the regular oil price hikes and the party's
discontent has been conveyed to the central leadership of the
Congress.
A Trinamool leader said the party was never consulted before such
important decisions which have a direct bearing on the daily lives
of the common people.
Oil marketing companies Thursday raised petrol prices by Rs.1.80
per litre effective from midnight, just over a month and a half
since the last hike.
The latest petrol price rise -- the 11th time since June 2010 --
comes over and above a steep upward revision of Rs.3.14 a litre on
Sep 15, 2011.
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