{"id":447728,"date":"2021-11-06T09:55:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T04:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447728"},"modified":"2021-11-06T10:56:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T05:26:53","slug":"eye-on-elections-bjp-states-take-fuel-tax-cut-cue-from-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/eye-on-elections-bjp-states-take-fuel-tax-cut-cue-from-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye on elections, BJP states take fuel tax cut cue from Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Uttar Pradesh elections weighing heavily on their mind, after the somewhat unexpected drubbing in West Bengal Assembly elections earlier this year, and the setback in Himachal Pradesh bypolls, where price-rise and high oil prices were seen as a major poll issue, the Centre\u2019s decision to reduce excise duty on petrol and diesel is seen as a populist measure to retain the party\u2019s electoral dominance ahead of elections in several states next year.<\/p>\n<p>A day after bypoll results were announced, the Centre on Wednesday announced excise duty cuts on petrol by Rs 5 and diesel by Rs 10. By late Wednesday night, NDA-governed Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Karnataka, Manipur, Tripura, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh and announced additional cuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Uttar Pradesh elections weighing heavily on their mind, after the somewhat unexpected drubbing in West Bengal Assembly elections earlier this year, and the setback in Himachal Pradesh bypolls, where price-rise and high oil prices were seen as a major poll issue, the Centre\u2019s decision to reduce excise duty on petrol and diesel is seen as a populist measure to retain the party\u2019s electoral dominance ahead of elections in several states next year. A day after bypoll results were announced, the Centre on Wednesday announced excise duty cuts on petrol by Rs 5 and diesel by Rs 10. By late [&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-447728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447728","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=447728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}