{"id":360116,"date":"2020-06-29T12:38:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T07:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=360116"},"modified":"2020-06-29T12:38:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T07:08:23","slug":"fuel-prices-rise-congress-leaders-told-to-intensify-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fuel-prices-rise-congress-leaders-told-to-intensify-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel prices rise: Congress leaders told to intensify protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress has asked its leaders and workers to pull bullock carts, ride cycles, interview taxi drivers and post their comments on social media during the week-long nationwide agitation from Monday against the \u201cunprecedented and continuous\u201d increase in petrol and diesel prices.<\/p>\n<p>In a circular, Congress general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal asked them to register a strong protest against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government at the Centre through demonstrations against the \u201cextortionate increase\u201d in fuel rates when people face \u201cunprecedented\u201d economic challenges due to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Prices of petrol have been increased by \u20b99.12 paise per litre and diesel by \u20b911.01 a litre since June 7. The price revision was paused for a day on Wednesday after the 17th rate increase in a row. The next day, the price was raised by 16 paise per litre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress has asked its leaders and workers to pull bullock carts, ride cycles, interview taxi drivers and post their comments on social media during the week-long nationwide agitation from Monday against the \u201cunprecedented and continuous\u201d increase in petrol and diesel prices. In a circular, Congress general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal asked them to register a strong protest against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government at the Centre through demonstrations against the \u201cextortionate increase\u201d in fuel rates when people face \u201cunprecedented\u201d economic challenges due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Prices of petrol have been increased by \u20b99.12 paise per litre and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360116","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}