NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress and DMK today forced the government to hold back any moves to limit the supply of subsidised LPG even as the allies joined the opposition in demanded the roll back of hike in petrol price.

Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal chief minister and leader of Trinamool Congress, the second largest constituent of UPA, expressed her opposition to any LPG price hike and slammed the increase in petrol prices.

Along with Trinamool, two other allies DMK and NCP also were critical of the petrol price hike and demanded roll back.

A meeting of the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on limiting the supply of subsidised LPG was deferred at the last minute after objections from Trinamool Congress and DMK.

Official sources said the meeting was called off "due to non-availability" of certain members of the panel and no new dates have been notified.

The EGoM was to consider limiting the supply of subsidised LPG cylinders to 4-6 per household in a year to cut down the government's subsidy outgo by over Rs 12,000 crore. This could have led to the price of non-subsidised gas cylinders pegged at over Rs 700 per cylinder.

DMK leader and fertiliser minister M K Azhagiri decided not to attend the meeting to show his party's opposition to the proposal, DMK sources said.

Railway minister and Trinamool Congress leader Dinesh Trivedi dismissed reports that he was not willing to attend the meeting saying actually it would have given him an opportunity to put forward his party's opposition to it.

On yesterday's decision to increase the price of petrol by Rs three, Trivedi said the party wants it to be rolled back.