{"id":189995,"date":"2022-04-30T02:13:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T20:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=189995"},"modified":"2022-04-30T02:13:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T20:43:34","slug":"centre-hiked-taxes-on-petrol-diesel-by-250-between-2014-15-and-2020-21-cong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/04\/30\/centre-hiked-taxes-on-petrol-diesel-by-250-between-2014-15-and-2020-21-cong\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre hiked taxes on petrol, diesel by 250% between 2014-15 and 2020-21: Cong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 29 Apr:<\/strong> Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attacked the government on Friday over rising fuel prices, saying the Centre hiked taxes on petrol and diesel by 250 percent between 2014-15 and 2020-21.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her attack on the BJP-led government came amid a political slugfest over Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagging higher fuel prices in many opposition-ruled states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The opposition chief ministers have launched an offensive against the prime minister on the issue of tax cuts on petroleum products.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a tweet in Hindi, Priyanka Gandhi said the central government increased the tax collection on petrol and diesel by 250 percent between 2014-15 and 2020-21.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2014, excise duty charged was only Rs 9.48 on petrol and only Rs 3.56 on diesel, the Congress general secretary said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Priyanka Gandhi also tagged a media report which said the central government increased excise duty on fuel by 250 percent in six years. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 29 Apr: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attacked the government on Friday over rising fuel prices, saying the Centre hiked taxes on petrol and diesel by 250 percent between 2014-15 and 2020-21. Her attack on the BJP-led government came amid a political slugfest over Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagging higher fuel prices in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-189995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}