Maharashtra Session: MVA Legislators Protest Against Cooking Gas Price Hike

Legislators of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Thursday protested at the Maharashtra Legislature Complex against the hike in cooking gas prices and demanded its rollback.

The price of cooking liquid petroleum gas (LPG) was increased by Rs 50 per cylinder on Wednesday.

Members of the MVA, which includes the Nationalist Congress Party, the Congress and the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), stood on the steps of the Vidhan Bhavan on Thursday and raised slogans against the state’s Eknath Shinde-BJP government, accusing it of harming the state. Planted. interest of common man and farmers

Ever since this government came to power, the budget of the common man’s house has collapsed. He claimed that farmers’ electricity connections were being cut.

The budget session of the state legislature is currently underway.

After the price hike, the price of a 14.2 kg LPG cylinder in Delhi has now increased from Rs 1,053 to Rs 1,103, as per the price notification of state-owned fuel retailers.

State-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) on Wednesday said the rate for a 14.2 kg non-subsidised LPG cylinder was Rs 1,103.

The government does not provide any subsidy to most non-Ujjwala users and this is the rate they will have to pay to buy LPG refills.

The government gives a subsidy of Rs 200 per cylinder to the 9.58 crore poor who get free LPG connections under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana. The effective price for them will be Rs 903 per cylinder. PTI MR GK GK

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