{"id":447596,"date":"2021-11-05T11:18:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T05:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447596"},"modified":"2021-11-05T12:58:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T07:28:04","slug":"bjp-slams-maharashtra-govt-for-not-cutting-vat-on-petrol-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bjp-slams-maharashtra-govt-for-not-cutting-vat-on-petrol-diesel\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP slams Maharashtra govt for not cutting VAT on petrol, diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day after the Centre brought down prices of petrol and diesel by Rs 5 and Rs 10 respectively, the state&#8217;s opposition BJP has slammed the Maharashtra government for not bringing down the state&#8217;s value added tax (VAT) on petroleum products that could bring further relief to people. The ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance responded saying BJP reduced prices only after the latter&#8217;s loss in the recent bypolls held in many states.<\/p>\n<p>BJP spokesperson Keshav Upadhye said on Thursday the state should follow the example of the BJP-ruled states and bring down the prices of petroleum products by reducing the state VAT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after the Centre brought down prices of petrol and diesel by Rs 5 and Rs 10 respectively, the state&#8217;s opposition BJP has slammed the Maharashtra government for not bringing down the state&#8217;s value added tax (VAT) on petroleum products that could bring further relief to people. The ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance responded saying BJP reduced prices only after the latter&#8217;s loss in the recent bypolls held in many states. BJP spokesperson Keshav Upadhye said on Thursday the state should follow the example of the BJP-ruled states and bring down the prices of petroleum products by reducing [&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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447596","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=447596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}