Lucknow, May 9 -- Samajawadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday alleged that the Central government is planning to increase the price of petrol and diesel amid the supply disruption caused during the West Asia conflict.

He claimed that reports of oil corporations suffering losses of nearly Rs 30,000 crore every month indicate that petrol and diesel prices could increase in the coming days.

"It has come out recently that Oil corporations are incurring a loss of Rs 30,000 crore in a month, which means that to make up that loss, efforts are being made to take money from your pockets. Just like they made gas cylinders expensive...now the price of diesel and petrol is going to increase. I read this in today's paper itself. Bharatiya...