A day after the Trinamool Congress pulled out of the United Progressive Alliance over the issues, the dominant Congress asked the states run by the party to raise the quota of subsidised cooking gas cylinders from six to nine.

"Sonia Gandhi has asked Congress chief ministers that now the government's decision of subsidising six cylinders should be increased to nine. Now nine cylinders will be given at subsidised prices," ppokesperson Janardan Dwivedi told reporters here.