{"id":447787,"date":"2021-11-06T10:29:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T04:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447787"},"modified":"2021-11-06T12:02:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T06:32:17","slug":"petrol-politics-kicks-in-ahead-of-polls-as-states-go-for-tax-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-politics-kicks-in-ahead-of-polls-as-states-go-for-tax-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol politics kicks in ahead of polls as states go for tax cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a number of BJP-ruled states reducing taxes on petrol and diesel on Thursday and the party trying to frame it as a \u201cDiwali gift\u201d by the Modi government, the Congress took a swipe at the ruling party, saying the decision to slash the excise duty was driven by fear and not by a desire to lighten the common man&#8217;s burden. <\/p>\n<p>The steady rise in fuel prices had angered people and made sections in the saffron party jittery over fears of a blowback. The BJP is already under pressure over its handling of the Covid-19 crisis and facing anti-incumbency in poll-bound states. The excise duty cut, interestingly, came after the bye-election results and Congress leader P Chidambaram said it was a \u201cby-product of the bypolls\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a number of BJP-ruled states reducing taxes on petrol and diesel on Thursday and the party trying to frame it as a \u201cDiwali gift\u201d by the Modi government, the Congress took a swipe at the ruling party, saying the decision to slash the excise duty was driven by fear and not by a desire to lighten the common man&#8217;s burden. The steady rise in fuel prices had angered people and made sections in the saffron party jittery over fears of a blowback. The BJP is already under pressure over its handling of the Covid-19 crisis and facing anti-incumbency in [&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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447787","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=447787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}