Trinamool calls budget tolerable

After asking for a rollback of the hike in passenger fares announced by railway minister Dinesh Trivedi, Trinamool Congress on Friday was relatively muted in its reaction to the budget presented by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, with Mamata Banerjee’s party describing it as “tolerable”.
At a time when Banerjee is negotiating to replace Trivedi and also expects Mukherjee to work out special financial packages for the state, Trinamool parliamentary party leader Sudip Bandopadhyay called the general budget “tolerable” while adding that his party wanted the government to ensure that prices of fertilizers and kerosene were not raised.
Trinamool Congress, Bandopadhyay said, would coordinate with MPs from Kerala and Punjab in Parliament to seek moratorium for three years on the debt to states, noting that West Bengal was paying Rs 22,000 crore on loan repayment.
Budget 2012
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