{"id":424973,"date":"2021-07-08T10:19:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T04:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=424973"},"modified":"2021-07-08T11:41:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T06:11:09","slug":"rahul-gandhi-slams-govt-over-petrol-price-hike-calls-it-tax-extortionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rahul-gandhi-slams-govt-over-petrol-price-hike-calls-it-tax-extortionist\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi slams govt over petrol price hike, calls it tax extortionist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress on Monday slammed the government over petrol prices crossing \u20b9100 per litre in the national Capital, alleging that the Modi government runs of the notion of \u201ctax extortion\u201d. Congress added that when \u201clooters\u201d govern a country, the masses have to suffer from inflation. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour car may run on petrol or diesel, the Modi government runs on tax extortion,\u201d Congress leader Rahul Gandhi tweeted in Hindi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom January 1 to July 7, the Modi government increased the prices of petrol 69 times. From April 2014 to June 2021, petrol and diesel witnessed an increase of excise duty from which the government shockingly looted \u20b925 lakh crore from Indian people,\u201d national spokesperson of the Congress Randeep Surjewala said at a press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress on Monday slammed the government over petrol prices crossing \u20b9100 per litre in the national Capital, alleging that the Modi government runs of the notion of \u201ctax extortion\u201d. Congress added that when \u201clooters\u201d govern a country, the masses have to suffer from inflation. \u201cYour car may run on petrol or diesel, the Modi government runs on tax extortion,\u201d Congress leader Rahul Gandhi tweeted in Hindi. \u201cFrom January 1 to July 7, the Modi government increased the prices of petrol 69 times. From April 2014 to June 2021, petrol and diesel witnessed an increase of excise duty from which 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":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424973","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\/424973","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=424973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}