Mamata slams BJP govt over petrol Hike

Kolkata, Mar 02: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has slammed at the Central government for not doing anything to control the surge in price of petrol and diesel.

"Diesel/petrol prices are rising and rising and rising. People are suffering. Kitchens are burning. Government is only talking," she wrote on Twitter.

Petrol prices today hit a four-year high of Rs 73.73 a litre while diesel rates touched an all-time high of Rs 64.58 in the national capital, renewing calls for the government to slash excise duty on oil import.

State-owned oil firms, which have been revising auto fuel prices daily since June last year, raised petrol and diesel rates by 18 paise a litre each in Delhi, according to a price notification.