Dikhyaa Mohanty 
West Bengal’s ruling party Trinamool Congress has targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a hike in domestic cooking gas, claiming that people continue to suffer but he does not care.
On Wednesday, the Cooking gas price was hiked by ₹ 50 per cylinder, the third increase in rates since May on firming international energy prices. The TMC quoted on its official Twitter handle- “Domestic 14.2 kg LPG cylinder prices increased by ₹ 50/cylinder. Mr. @narendramodi showering the people of India with all his love, yet again. In Modi ji’s ‘Amrit Kaal’, suffering does not stop. And the PM? Does not care”.
Non-subsidised LPG now costs ₹ 1,079 per 14.2-kg cylinder in Kolkata, up from ₹ 1,029 previously, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers.
Common households pay non-subsidised rates for the cooking gas they buy after the government restricted subsidy to just poor beneficiaries who got connections under the Ujjwala scheme.
The LPG rate was increased for the third time since May and the fourth this year. The price was hiked by ₹ 50 per cylinder on March 22 and again by the same quantum on May 7. Rates went up by ₹ 3 per cylinder on May 19.
