India registered a seventh hike in fuel prices in eight days on Tuesday as the government continues to underline that the Ukraine war is one of the factors behind the spike. Petrol prices were hiked by 80 paise per litre on Tuesday taking total hike to ₹4.80, PTI reported.
With the fresh hike, petrol and diesel prices in Delhi rose to ₹100.21 per litre and ₹91.47 per litre respectively. In India’s financial capital Mumbai, petrol price stood at ₹115.04 per litre, whereas the per liter cost for diesel rose to ₹99.25 per litre. In Chennai, one litre of petrol will now cost ₹105.94 and a litre of diesel will cost ₹96. In Kolkata, it’s ₹109.68 per litre for petrol and ₹94.62 per litre for diesel.
Prices were stable for over four and a half months, a period during which election campaigns and polling were held in five states – Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa, Manipur.
