VIJAYAWADA: Finding fault with the State government for not reducing the prices of petrol and diesel and blaming the Centre for collecting more cess on fuel, BJP political feedback department pramukh Lanka Dinakar said that the Centre was spending the money collected through cess on development and welfare programmes.
Andhra Pradesh collected Rs 11,014 crore as taxes on petrol and diesel in the 2020-21 fiscal, while Uttar Pradesh, which is four times bigger than AP collected only Rs 21,956 crore. AP stood top in South India in collecting taxes on petrol and diesel, he said.
