Didigiri again !!

UPA ally Trinamool Congress has threatened to quit the ruling alliance if the government does not roll back its decisions to hike fuel prices and allow FDI in multi-brand retail and civil aviation, with party chief Mamata Banerjee saying “loot was on”.
The West Bengal chief minister has set a 72-hour deadline for the government to reconsider its decisions and has communicated the same to the Centre.
“We cannot support price hike of diesel and reduction in subsidized LPG cylinders. Today, a decision has been taken allowing FDI in retail sector. It is a big jolt. We are really sorry. We cannot support anything that is against the interest of the poor and common people. Loot cholchhe loot (Loot is going on),” Banerjee said. Trinamool sources said railway minister Mukul Roy, Banerjee’s sole representative in the Union Cabinet, conveyed the party’s stand to senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel over phone on Friday evening after the announcement of the second provocation; the first being the increase in diesel price and capping of subsidy on LPG. Roy did not attend the meeting of the Union Cabinet on Friday.
Although this was because he had to be in Kolkata for President Pranab Mukherjee’s first visit to his home state after he moved to Rashtrapati Bhavan, the absence served the political purpose of distancing Trinamool from the FDI decision which goes against the party’s stand and has since been seized upon by her arch rivals, the CPM, to launch a political campaign.
Congress appeared to be firm on the decision to let in global retail giants, raising the prospect of tension with Banerjee just when she appeared to have mellowed. The TMC chief has called a meeting of her party leaders, including all her MPs, in Kolkata on Tuesday to take a call on whether to withdraw from the government.

An infuriated TMC chief is of the opinion that “this is not a majority government of the Congress that it can take unilateral decisions”. Banerjee has been opposed to taking any antipeople move like raising train fares and had even sacked partyman Dinesh Trivedi for hiking fares in the last rail budget. She has also publicly opposed FDI in retail and civil aviation.
Reacting angrily on Facebook, Banerjee said, “In a federal structure, Centre is the supremo -- they make policies and impose taxes. At the same time, the Centre takes away about 70% of the tax proceeds collected from the states and leaves behind a meagre 30% for utilization by the states. As per the present formula, our state receives only 2.3% of the total taxes collected by the Centre.”
In her longish post, the chief minister said, “My state is very much willing to provide full relief to the common people and farmers affected by the increase in prices of domestic LPG and diesel. But at the same time, Centre must allow state to collect all taxes, now taken away by the Centre. This will enable the state to provide full relief and subsidy.”