Govt may partially rollback LPG cylinder cap: reports

NEW DELHI: The government is likely to partially rollback cap on subsidised LPG cylinders from six to 10 amid a pull out threat by Trinamool Congress, media reports said on Monday.

The Trinamool on Sunday had said that it will pull out its ministers from the UPA government — only as an extreme step — if the Centre does not reverse the decisions on diesel and cooking gas price hikes and allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) in the retail sector.

Although railway minister and TMC leader Mukul Roy said, "Our party chief (Mamata Banerjee) will take a final call on the next course of action after the parliamentary party meeting on Tuesday", the Congress looked unperturbed.

The Opposition and the government's outside supporters, the Samajwadi Party and Janata Dal (S), also called a nationwide strike on September 20 protest the FDI in retail and diesel price hike.

But NDA constituent Shiv Sena decided to stay away from the strike call, citing Ganesh festival as the reason.

Besides, the four Left parties, SP, BJD, TDP and JD(S) have given a separate strike call on the same day.