Baghel calls fuel price hike BJP’s ‘first gift’, Kharge says expect daily Vikas

Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel said he had warned about the fuel price hike if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is voted back to power in the state elections. Baghel said that the rise in fuel and gas prices is the BJP’s gift to the people of this country for forming the government in four states.

“I had earlier (during the campaign for Assembly elections 2022) said that prices of petrol, diesel & LPG’s domestic cylinder will rise if BJP voted to power. The rise in fuel and gas prices is the BJP’s first gift to the people of the country after forming government in four states,” news agency ANI quoted the senior Congress leader as saying.

Months before the assembly elections in five states, the central government had slashed excise duty on diesel and petrol by ₹10 and ₹5 per litre, respectively.