New Delhi: Trinamool Congress leader Ratna Dey was one of the signatories to the Standing Committee's report on putting a cap on subsidised LPG. The committee had also spoken about doing away with LPG subsidy for the rich, MPs and MLAs.
Sources say that the Congress is now reaching out to the Trinamool using Dey's approval on the report, to mollify Mamata Banerjee as her deadline to the government to roll back diesel price hike, LPG cap and FDI in retail ends.
The Standing Committee on Petroleum in its report in August on LPG subsidy had said, "As regards a proposal under consideration of the Government to restrict four cylinders during a year that can be given at subsidized rate to all consumers, the Committee strongly feel that to offset the huge losses made on account of subsidized domestic LPG cylinders, the Government may consider to do away with providing subsidized LPG to rich and affluent people including those holding constitutional posts, public representatives like MPs, MLAs/MLCs. The Committee are of the firm opinion that such an initiative by the Government will help to expand its subsidized LPG distribution to the rural people who are more in the need of this clean fuel. The Committee desired to be apprised of concrete action taken in this regard within a period of 3 months."
However, CPM leader Tapan Sen had also sent a dissenting note. Sen had written to Petroleum Minister Jaipal Reddy accusing him of misleading the people by placing an ad that Standing Committee had unanimously recommended to slash subsidy.
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