Tamil Nadu BJP president K. Annamalai on Sunday said if the DMK government did not fulfil its electoral promises of reducing fuel prices [petrol by ₹5/litre and diesel by ₹4/litre] and give a subsidy of ₹100 per LPG cylinder within 72 hours, his party would undertake a protest march to the State Secretariat.
“We are not asking for ₹10 to ₹15 more than what you had promised,” he said, hoping that the DMK would not give rise to a situation where it would reduce the price only because of the BJP’s protest. The State government had last year reduced the price of petrol by ₹3/litre.
Responding to State Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan’s question on whether the Centre had asked for permission to raise fuel prices in the past, Mr. Annamalai asked if former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh took permission of the DMK before increasing fuel prices every time.
