{"id":447877,"date":"2021-11-06T11:24:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T05:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447877"},"modified":"2021-11-06T12:51:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T07:21:02","slug":"bjp-claims-moral-high-ground-on-fuel-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bjp-claims-moral-high-ground-on-fuel-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP claims moral high ground on fuel tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP\u2019s Bengal unit on Thursday said it would start a statewide protest after Saturday if the Bengal government doesn\u2019t cut taxes it collects from petrol and diesel immediately, a day after the Centre reduced excise duties on petrol and diesel by Rs 5 and Rs 10 a litre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral BJP-ruled states and a few others have reduced the sales tax they collect on petrol and diesel after the Centre announced the reduction on excise duty. The Bengal government did nothing of that sort&#8230; If tax the state government collects isn\u2019t reduced immediately, the BJP will start a statewide protest after Bhaiphonta (Saturday),\u201d Samik Bhattacharya, state BJP\u2019s chief spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP\u2019s Bengal unit on Thursday said it would start a statewide protest after Saturday if the Bengal government doesn\u2019t cut taxes it collects from petrol and diesel immediately, a day after the Centre reduced excise duties on petrol and diesel by Rs 5 and Rs 10 a litre. \u201cSeveral BJP-ruled states and a few others have reduced the sales tax they collect on petrol and diesel after the Centre announced the reduction on excise duty. The Bengal government did nothing of that sort&#8230; If tax the state government collects isn\u2019t reduced immediately, the BJP will start a statewide protest [&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":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447877","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=447877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}