However, fuel pump owners here said they were confused about the exact cost per litre and were waiting for instructions from the oil companies in view of the state sales tax revision.
The Trinamul Congress, the state's main opposition party now on a high after successes in the recent panchayat elections, announced a 12 hour strike on June 6 at a press briefing on June 4 afternoon.
Earlier in the day, the ruling Left Front in West Bengal today said it would enforce a 12-hour, 6am to 6pm, general strike in the state and in Tripura on June 5 to protest the hike in oil prices.
Front chairman Biman Bose ducked questions on how a ruling group could enforce a bandh, and also how it could call a bandh when it was the largest group keeping the government in power. The Opposition Trinamul Congress leader Mamata Banerjee termed the Left move a "joke" but reserved her right to call a 12-hour general strike as early as June 6.
