{"id":357440,"date":"2020-06-15T12:22:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T06:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=357440"},"modified":"2020-06-15T13:03:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T07:33:50","slug":"petrol-diesel-hike-a-double-whammy-on-people-pritam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-diesel-hike-a-double-whammy-on-people-pritam\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol, diesel hike a double whammy on people: Pritam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) President, Pritam Singh has said that the increase in prices of Petrol, diesel and cooking gas has hit the people of the country hard who were already reeling under Covid-19 crisis.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the PCC president said that by increasing the prices of petrol and cooking gas regularly amidst the Covid -19 pandemic, the Union government has shown its insensitivity.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the economic crisis has resulted in large scale job loss and closure of industrial units but oblivious of all this the union Government is piling up the agony by increasing the prices of petrol and cooking gas.<\/p>\n<p>Singh said that the increase in price of fuel would have a cascading effect on the prices which are bound to sky rocket.<\/p>\n<p>He accused the union government of increasing the prices of fuel even as the international prices of crude are decreasing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) President, Pritam Singh has said that the increase in prices of Petrol, diesel and cooking gas has hit the people of the country hard who were already reeling under Covid-19 crisis. In a statement, the PCC president said that by increasing the prices of petrol and cooking gas regularly amidst the Covid -19 pandemic, the Union government has shown its insensitivity. He said that the economic crisis has resulted in large scale job loss and closure of industrial units but oblivious of all this the union Government is piling up the agony by increasing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,211,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}