Mamata Banerjee's stance on petrol price rise:
Now Didi is put on the spot over petrol price hike.In last twelve months petrol price has increased as many as eleven times, perhaps a record till date.Hike in petrol price boosts up prices of other essential commodities also which are incidentally already too high.As Trinommol Congress is one of the biggest allies of coalition govt at center,it should share the responsibility of fuel price rice.But Didi does not like to do so as it might affect her popularity and CMP would take this opportunity to score a point over her.So she's gone in for vociferously defending her position by vehemently protesting against such rise in petrol price. She's also pleaded that her party was kept in the dark in this matter.She's even threatened to pull out of UPA in protest but refrained from taking such a drastic action because it'd topple the govt.
In fact, last year UPA govt took the decision in its cabinet meeting to decontrol the prices of fuels and left it to market to determine them. Didi was then Railway minister. For some reason or other she skipped the meeting. She, however, didn't later on object to the decision taken by the union cabinet either.So Didi was legally a party to the decision to decontrol the price of petrol.Now how could she claim petrol price has been hiked without taking her in confidence and threaten to part with UPA govt on this count?Isn't it an attempt to take people for a ride?
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