Petrol price hike: Mamata leads protest in Kolkata

May 26, 2012 18:36

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday lead a protest march in Kolkata against steep hike in price of petrol. She is marching from her Assembly constituency of Jadavpur to Hazra in south Kolkata.

Her close aide and Union Railway Minister Mukul Roy did his bit on Thursday, participating in a Trinamool Congress protest in the city.

Banerjee vocally protested when the hike of Rs. 6.28 plus taxes was announced on Wednesday. "We cannot accept the petrol price hike," she said.

The government, she added, should not have allowed such an economic situation to come.

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