The Trinamool Congress supremo accused the BJP of deviating from the commitments it had made to the public and alleged that the saffron party "does not care about the people".
"The BJP makes public commitments and then deviates from all. They only care about money," Banerjee wrote on her Twitter handle this afternoon.
Questioning BJP's commitment to the society, Banerjee wrote, "How can the BJP not carry out their social obligation? Where is their commitment to society at large?"
The government has ordered state-run oil companies to raise subsidised cooking gas (LPG) prices by Rs 4 per cylinder every month to eliminate all the subsidies by March next year, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said today.
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The government had previously asked Indian Oil (IOC), Bharat Petroleum (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) to raise rates of subsidised domestic LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) by Rs 2 per 14.2-kg cylinder per month (excluding VAT).
Now, the quantum has been doubled so as to bring down the subsidy to nil, he said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha here.
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