{"id":447708,"date":"2021-11-06T09:47:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T04:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447708"},"modified":"2021-11-06T10:37:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T05:07:38","slug":"bjp-congress-demand-delhi-govt-reduce-vat-on-petrol-and-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bjp-congress-demand-delhi-govt-reduce-vat-on-petrol-and-diesel\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP, Congress demand Delhi govt reduce VAT on petrol and diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP and Congress Friday demanded that the AAP-led Delhi government immediately reduce VAT on petrol and diesel to give relief to people and said they would launch protests otherwise. The Congress, however, said the Centre\u2019s excise duty cuts on fuel prices are too meagre.<\/p>\n<p>No immediate reaction was available from Delhi government on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri said the Arvind Kejriwal government should immediately reduce VAT on petrol and diesel by Rs 10 each so that the people of Delhi can get relief from inflation. He said if the demands are not met by Sunday, then all BJP MLAs will protest outside the CM\u2019s residence on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP and Congress Friday demanded that the AAP-led Delhi government immediately reduce VAT on petrol and diesel to give relief to people and said they would launch protests otherwise. The Congress, however, said the Centre\u2019s excise duty cuts on fuel prices are too meagre. No immediate reaction was available from Delhi government on the issue. Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri said the Arvind Kejriwal government should immediately reduce VAT on petrol and diesel by Rs 10 each so that the people of Delhi can get relief from inflation. He said if the demands are [&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-447708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447708","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=447708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}