This is the seventh hike in prices of petrol during the last six months. CPI (M) addressed upon its state units to establish an immediate protest. Past month, there was an increase of Rs 3 per litre.

A product which costs Rs 30 is being sold-out at Rs 60 and that amounts to 100 per cent taxation. "This hike is entirely unjustified. We call for its rollback," BJP representative Prakash Javadekar stated in New Delhi.

BJP and CPI (M) on Saturday slammed the move as "callous" and a "cruel blow" on the popular man the Centre's conclusion to raise petrol prices and claimed a push back in the hike.

This is nothing but loot of the common man by the government. BJP stated the seventh raise in the last six months was totally unreasonable and amounted a lot to the general man and that it is the "worst gift" that a government can present to the people in the New Year.

Javadekar said the reason of under-recovery by the oil groups referred by the government as the grounds for the hike up is not true.