Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will lead her party Trinamool Congress,the second largest ally of the UPA government at the Centre, in Kolkata on Saturday to protest against the steep hike in petrol price.
Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress supremo, will lead the procession from Jadavpore to Hazra crossing, covering a distance of 5 km in south Kolkata, senior party leader and panchayat minister Subrata Mukherjee said.
"It will be a major voice of protest against the petrol price hike," Mukherjee said.
Railway minister and Trinamool Congress All-India General Secretary Mukul Roy, will also take part in the procession. This will be the second protest procession by the Trinamool Congress this week after the one on Friday led by Roy.
Banerjee has expressed strong displeasure at the unprecedented petrol price hike on Wednesday but said she will not pull out of the UPA.
She has said that maybe the Trinamool Congress was not quitting the UPA alliance as the election commitment was to support the government for five years, but it did not mean that resistance against 'unjust decisions' will cease.
Party sources said that protest rallies and processions will also be organised statewide at block-level on Sunday.
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