{"id":447860,"date":"2021-11-06T11:33:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T06:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447860"},"modified":"2021-11-06T12:37:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T07:07:48","slug":"bommai-targets-congress-ruled-states-over-no-reduction-in-fuel-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bommai-targets-congress-ruled-states-over-no-reduction-in-fuel-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bommai targets Congress-ruled states over no reduction in fuel taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday criticised the Congress over its stand to neither appreciate the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government\u2019s decision to reduce taxes on fuel nor do its own ruled states follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Congress ruled states and those by their allies have refused to reduce taxes on petrol and diesel. This shows their anti-people approach. The Congress here (Karnataka) should clarify if this is the party\u2019s stand. Their governments never reduced it by \u20b97. Since Congress ruled states have not done this, they have no right to talk about it,\u201d Bommai said.<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led union government and all other BJP ruled states announced tax cuts on fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday criticised the Congress over its stand to neither appreciate the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government\u2019s decision to reduce taxes on fuel nor do its own ruled states follow suit. \u201cThe Congress ruled states and those by their allies have refused to reduce taxes on petrol and diesel. This shows their anti-people approach. The Congress here (Karnataka) should clarify if this is the party\u2019s stand. Their governments never reduced it by \u20b97. Since Congress ruled states have not done this, they have no right to talk about it,\u201d Bommai said. The statement comes a [&hellip;]<\/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-447860","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\/447860","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=447860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}