Trinamool MPs meet PM, express concern over petrol price hike

New Delhi: Members of Parliament from West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress Party today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the recent fuel price hike and lack of coordination among the alliance parties of UPA-2. “We have expressed our total concern by the price hike of petroleum products,” said Chief Whip of Trinamool Congress Parliamentary Party in Lok Sabha and also a Union minister Sudip Bandyopadhyay told the media after meeting the prime minister.[caption id=“attachment_126410” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Sudip Bandyopadhyay. Image courtesy PIB”]  [/caption] All party MPs including Union Minister for Railways Dinesh Trivedi except for one met the prime minister. The TMC delegation informed the prime minister about the party’s parliamentary committee resolution that was held under Minister of State for Shippping Mukul Roy in Kolkata. “We expressed our sentiments as it came out in our Kolkata parliamentary committee meet,” said Bandyopadhyay. “We told the prime minister that if such decisions are taken without consultation with the alliance parties in future, Trinamool would be forced to rethink about the alliance. We also informed prime minister about the lack of coordination among the alliance partners,” he said. Bandyopadhyay said that the prime minister told them that the hike was necessary for economic reasons and accepted the there should be more coordination among the UPA-2 stakeholders. Meanwhile, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today in Kolkata. However, she called it a “routine meeting” regarding the economy of her state West Bengal.