{"id":406819,"date":"2021-03-24T12:06:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T06:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=406819"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:50:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T07:20:15","slug":"in-ls-oppn-targets-govt-over-fuel-prices-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/in-ls-oppn-targets-govt-over-fuel-prices-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"In LS, Oppn targets Govt over fuel prices, Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Opposition took on the government over provisions in the Budget and rising fuel prices in the country during discussions on the Finance Bill, 2021, in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. While the Congress raised the issue of rising economic inequality and fuel prices, the Shiv Sena said that farmers\u2019 income will never double if fuel prices kept increasing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe inequality is increasing. Your own data shows that 73 per cent of wealth generated in the country goes to 1 per cent people. You have given tax relief to the rich but taxed the poor. Why are petrol and diesel getting more expensive every day? You have been increasing cess on everything which goes to central coffers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Opposition took on the government over provisions in the Budget and rising fuel prices in the country during discussions on the Finance Bill, 2021, in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. While the Congress raised the issue of rising economic inequality and fuel prices, the Shiv Sena said that farmers\u2019 income will never double if fuel prices kept increasing. \u201cThe inequality is increasing. Your own data shows that 73 per cent of wealth generated in the country goes to 1 per cent people. You have given tax relief to the rich but taxed the poor. Why are petrol and diesel [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406819","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=406819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}