The Trinamool Congress, the second largest party in the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the centre, expressed its unhappiness with the decision to hike fuel prices.
"We are not happy with this decision of the centre. The union government has increased the fuel price and it will translate into the price rise of every essential commodity in the market," Trinamool Congress leader in the state assembly Partha Chattopadhyay told IANS.
He said this decision would goad the state government into increasing the cess and sales tax on every commodity and this burden will finally affect the state's common people.
"I request the state government not to hike cess and the burden of sales tax in order to protect the interest of common people," the leader of the opposition in the assembly said.