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Mamata Banerjee announces tax cut on fuel

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Even as petrol prices soared to fresh record highs on Tuesday, Bangla Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced a Re 1 cut in price.

“For the time being, we have decided to slash one rupee for each litre of petrol and diesel. We also demand that the central government consider cutting down the cess on diesel and petrol prices,” the CM told reporters at Nabanna, the state secretariat.

She also attacked the centre saying that the BJP-led central government hiked excise duty nine times, even when the global crude prices were falling. “Our government has never increased the sales tax or cess during all these years,” she said.

“Our government is always pro-people. We will never take any decision that will harm the interests of the people,” she said.

Bengal CM slams Centre over LPG price hike

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Coming down heavily on the BJP, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said the soaring prices of essential commodities will result in the middle-class being badly hit which will, in turn, become a question of their basic sustenance.

“The hike in fuel price will affect the kitchen while the rise in the price of petrol and diesel will hit the transport sector badly,” she told newsmen on Saturday. The Chief Minister also said that the price of cooking gas has skyrocketed without any rhyme or reason.

“Things are going beyond the reach of the middle-class. How can they make their both ends meet? How can they sustain,” she said and added: “But the Centre is not taking any measure to bring down the prices of petrol and diesel and that of the cooking gas.”

Mamata Banerjee has said over and again that the hike in the prices of petrol and diesel are affecting the transport sector badly. “The Centre is totally indifferent towards this problem faced by the common people,” she maintained.

Flight carrying Mamata Banerjee denied permission to land despite low fuel, Derek O’Brien demands an enquiry | FULL TRANSCRIPT

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I have given a Notice under Rule 267 because members of this House and the country needs to know what happened last night. The Chief Minister of Bengal was coming from Patna on an one-hour flight. The pilot, when the plane was 200 km away from Kolkata, announced that they were eighth in the sequence of landing. Subsequently, the pilot has gone on record, saying that he informed the ATC that he was short of fuel, so he be allowed to land.

The landing was delayed. The flight hovered around for – some people are saying 15, some people are saying 30 minutes – but a considerable amount of time. Now after that, which the ATC is saying, another flight was allowed to land. The bottom line is that the pilot had no other option; they had to land that and there was a full emergency situation, there were fire engines, there were ambulances out there. An emergency-like situation was created.

The question here is, is there more to it than meets the eye. Sir, this is not a one-off occasion. I am not making any insinuations. Today it is one Opposition leader. Is it a coincidence that this Opposition leader is today at the forefront? There are other Opposition leaders – there is Behenji, there is Sharad Yadav Ji, there is Congress, there is JD(U). Sir, I am not making any allegation.

Sir, please understand. I am not an aviation expert, but I can tell you that when a pilot seeks landing, and you tell him don’t land, and the plane is short on fuel, this can’t happen. Why was it denied to land in the first place? That is why I am saying, today it is one Opposition leader, tomorrow it can be anyone. This is more and more suspicious, because this kind of “ultra-authoritarianism” is happening in many, many spheres. So I seek your protection.

Now, we don’t want to know what could have happened. Three pilots would be called for an enquiry. But this is about the Chief Minister of a State, along with a hundred other passengers. If the Chief Minister of a State is under so much pressure, what happens to normal people in the State?

Sir, I am not insinuating anything but there is a school of thought that believes that this too may be a controversy. This is “tanashahi” of another kind.

Intervention by Derek O’Brien’s intervention Minister’s reply on Mamata Banerjee’s flight snag

If nobody’s life was at stake, why were the emergency services like fire engines and ambulances at the runway?