Chennai, May 16 -- Slamming the Centre for the hike in prices of fuel and LPG, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which has offered key outside support to enable Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) of actor-politician Vijay to muster enough numbers for a simple majority to form the government, on Saturday said since no party had the requisite majority as the election results threw up a hung Assembly, the Marxist party pitched in by providing unconditional outside support to avoid imposition of President's rule in the state.

Addressing a protest demonstration organised by the Party's South district here to condemn the Centre for hiking the prices of fuel and LPG cooking gas cylinders, CPM State Secretary P Shanmugam said the Left parties' s...