Mamata unhappy over price hike, threatens to withdraw support

Kolkata: Unhappy over the petrol price hike, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has demanded demanded immediate rollback.
“We are unhappy and astonished that inspite of the formation of the UPA coordination committee after a long time, such a decision was taken without consulting us,” the West Bengal CM said.

“If people do not mind, I will be most happy to withdraw support (to the UPA). If I withdraw support then other parties will provide support to them. And, then ask why we left the UPA which led to its collapse. People had misunderstood us when we had withdrawn support earlier.

“Therefore we are having a detailed discussion in the party on these issues,” she said.

After discussions with the party at present it was decided that the government would have to withdraw the decisions.

“Withdraw the decision on diesel price hike and it will have to continue to give subsidy on LPG cylinders and people will buy it at the same rate as earlier,” she said.