{"id":357751,"date":"2020-06-16T12:08:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T06:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=357751"},"modified":"2020-06-16T12:50:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T07:20:17","slug":"sonia-gandhi-writes-to-pm-modi-seeks-rollback-of-fuel-price-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sonia-gandhi-writes-to-pm-modi-seeks-rollback-of-fuel-price-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonia Gandhi writes to PM Modi, seeks rollback of fuel price hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to roll back the hike in fuel prices, saying the government&#8217;s decision to increase them during the coronavirus crisis is &#8220;wholly insensitive&#8221; and &#8220;ill-advised&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Given that the international price of crude oil has fallen by approximately nine per cent over the last week, the government is doing nothing short of &#8220;profiteering off its people&#8221; when they are down and out, she said in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. <\/p>\n<p>Petrol and diesel prices were hiked for the 10th day in a row on Tuesday. While the price of petrol has gone up cumulatively by Rs 5.47 per litre, price of diesel has increased by Rs 5.8 per litre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to roll back the hike in fuel prices, saying the government&#8217;s decision to increase them during the coronavirus crisis is &#8220;wholly insensitive&#8221; and &#8220;ill-advised&#8221;. Given that the international price of crude oil has fallen by approximately nine per cent over the last week, the government is doing nothing short of &#8220;profiteering off its people&#8221; when they are down and out, she said in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Petrol and diesel prices were hiked for the 10th day in a row on Tuesday. While the price of [&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":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357751","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=357751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}