Petrol at ₹102-mark in Rajasthan, MP after 4th straight day of price hike
Petrol price on Friday scaled to ₹102 per litre in some parts of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh after rates were raised for the fourth straight day after ending of more than two-week-long hiatus during assembly elections in states like West Bengal.
On Friday, petrol price was hiked by a steep 29 paise per litre and diesel by 31 paise a litre, according to a price notification by state-owned fuel retailers.
This took the price of petrol in Delhi to ₹91.27 per litre and that of diesel to ₹81.73.
In Sri Ganganagar district of Rajasthan, petrol touched ₹102.15 a litre, prices from oil companies showed.
In Anuppur of Madhya Pradesh, petrol now costs ₹101.86 while it is priced at ₹99.95 a litre in Parbhani, Maharashtra.
