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Oil minister urges colleagues to give up subsidised LPG.

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New Delhi,jan.11 : With Finance Minister Arun Jaitley taking the lead in voluntarily giving up the use of subsidised cooking gas (LPG) cylinders, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan is calling upon his ministerial colleagues and members of Parliament to follow suit.

Pradhan surrendered his subsidised LPG connection soon after becoming a minister and has since then been buying gas at market rate. Shortly after Jaitley gave up his subsidised LPG connection, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi also voluntarily done the same. Power Minister Piyush Goyal tweeted that he too had given up subsidised LPG.

Jaitley had himself made the plea before Parliament for people like himself and those well off to give up subsidised cylinders so that the subsidy is limited to the poor. If more people come forward to join the initiative, the government hopes to cut its subsidy bill, which was Rs 46,458 crore in the last fiscal.

I am personally calling up one VIP everyday to request them to surrender subsidised LPG.

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