Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday said his government will reduce VAT on fuel like other states, hours after he urged the Centre to further slash excise duty and cited fund crunch caused by the Covid pandemic.
The Centre on November 3 slashed excise duty on petrol by `5 per litre and on diesel by `10 a litre to give reprieve to consumers battered by record-high retail fuel prices. The State Government has been under pressure from the opposition over the issue after several states, including Congress-ruled Punjab, cut down the price of petrol and diesel.
The politics over the issue intensified after the Punjab Government claimed in an advertisement that fuel prices there are lower than Delhi, Haryana and Rajasthan.
