Mamata Banerjee takes up ‘cruel’ hikes in fuel prices with Centre, shoots off letter to PM Narendra Modi

She wrote that the unprecedented fuel prices have resulted in inflation in other household items and have affected the common people adversely.

New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday (July 5) shot off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking reduction in taxes imposed by the Centre on fuel, thereby causing “cruel” hikes in the prices of petrol and diesel. She wrote that the unprecedented fuel prices have resulted in inflation in other household items and have affected the common people adversely. “Shockingly, the retail price of petrol in many states across the country has crossed an unprecedented Rs. 100 per litre,” Banerjee wrote in a letter.