{"id":425002,"date":"2021-07-08T10:42:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T05:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=425002"},"modified":"2021-07-08T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T06:33:11","slug":"karnataka-bjps-insensitivity-responsible-for-fuel-prices-strangling-commoners-cong-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/karnataka-bjps-insensitivity-responsible-for-fuel-prices-strangling-commoners-cong-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka: BJP\u2019s insensitivity responsible for fuel prices strangling commoners, Cong alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka Congress Wednesday took out cycle rallies across all 224 Assembly constituencies in the state protesting the \u201cunprecedented hike\u201d in fuel prices and \u201canti-people policies\u201d of the BJP-led central and state governments. <\/p>\n<p>State Congress chief DK Shivakumar, participating in the protest in Sirsi in Uttara Kannada district, said, \u201cFuel prices exceeding the Rs 100-mark has strangled commoners. Nothing but BJP\u2019s insensitivity is responsible for this situation. How can the common man afford this cost, which equates to robbery?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah said in Mysuru, \u201cIt is high time the Centre decided to bring down the high tax amount charged for each litre of fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka Congress Wednesday took out cycle rallies across all 224 Assembly constituencies in the state protesting the \u201cunprecedented hike\u201d in fuel prices and \u201canti-people policies\u201d of the BJP-led central and state governments. State Congress chief DK Shivakumar, participating in the protest in Sirsi in Uttara Kannada district, said, \u201cFuel prices exceeding the Rs 100-mark has strangled commoners. Nothing but BJP\u2019s insensitivity is responsible for this situation. How can the common man afford this cost, which equates to robbery?\u201d Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah said in Mysuru, \u201cIt is high time the Centre decided to bring down the high tax amount [&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-425002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425002","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=425002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}