{"id":447444,"date":"2021-11-05T11:33:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T06:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447444"},"modified":"2021-11-05T11:33:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T06:03:34","slug":"excise-duty-cut-on-fuel-by-product-of-bypoll-outcome-says-p-chidambaram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/excise-duty-cut-on-fuel-by-product-of-bypoll-outcome-says-p-chidambaram\/","title":{"rendered":"Excise duty cut on fuel by-product of bypoll outcome, says P Chidambaram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Congress leader and former Union minister P Chidambaram said results of the recently concluded by-elections had a by-product in the form of a reduction in excise duties on fuel.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Narendra Modi-led central government cut excise duty on petrol and diesel by record amounts of \u20b95 and \u20b910, respectively, per litre, to bring down their rates from the highest-ever levels.<\/p>\n<p>Chidambaram said the government\u2019s move was a confirmation of the Congress\u2019 charge that fuel prices were high mainly because of high taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Congress leader and former Union minister P Chidambaram said results of the recently concluded by-elections had a by-product in the form of a reduction in excise duties on fuel. On Wednesday, the Narendra Modi-led central government cut excise duty on petrol and diesel by record amounts of \u20b95 and \u20b910, respectively, per litre, to bring down their rates from the highest-ever levels. Chidambaram said the government\u2019s move was a confirmation of the Congress\u2019 charge that fuel prices were high mainly because of high taxes.<\/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-447444","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\/447444","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=447444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}