Petrol price lowered due to prez polls,will be increased again

Kolkata, Jun 28: With the price of petrol cut by Rs 2.46 per litre, Trinamool Congress chief and UPA ally

said that the price has been lowered with an eye to the presidential election and would be increased later.

"The price has come down because of the presidential election. They will increase the price later," Banerjee, the West Bengal Chief Minister, told reporters before leaving Writers Buildings. "The price of crude oil has decreased by Rs 100. The price of petrol should have been cut by Rs 10 to Rs 30 per litre," she said.

State-owned oil firms, which had last month hiked petrol price by a massive Rs 7.54 a litre, had on Jun 3 cut rates by Rs 2.02 per litre.

PTI