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The Tamil Nadu Petroleum Dealers Association (TNPDA) has decided to retract its decision to close fuel outlets on Sundays.In a press release here, the association president K.P. Murali said the Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas had clarified that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had not asked dealers to close fuel outlets on Sundays. “A large number of people too had opined on social media that closure would inconvenience consumers,” he said.
However, the Consortium of Indian Petroleum Dealers (CIPD) to which around 25,000 outlets in the country are affiliated, in its recent executive committee meeting in Kurukshetra in which the TNPDA too was party, had said that the Petroleum Conservation Regulatory Authority had received thousands of messages supporting Mr. Modi’s suggestion of avoiding usage of petrol/diesel on one day a week.
