A day after the Centre blamed non-BJP ruled states for the high fuel prices, Telangana Industries Minister K T Rama Rao lashed out at the Central government for reducing the windfall tax on crude oil “instead of transferring the benefit to the common man by lowering petrol, diesel prices.”
On Thursday, speaking in Parliament, Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri said that “If the West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Jharkhand reduce VAT on fuel, petrol, diesel prices will come down for consumers there.”
“The Centre is being insensitive to common people’s interests while it is favouring a handful of corporate companies,” said KTR, son of BRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao.
