{"id":447879,"date":"2021-11-06T11:41:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T06:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447879"},"modified":"2021-11-06T12:42:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T07:12:29","slug":"just-a-lollipop-congress-says-centres-excise-duty-move-on-fuel-an-eyewash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/just-a-lollipop-congress-says-centres-excise-duty-move-on-fuel-an-eyewash\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Just a lollipop&#8217;: Congress says Centre&#8217;s excise duty move on fuel an eyewash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel on Friday took a swipe at the Narendra Modi-led Central government over its recent move to cut excise duty on fuel and said it was nothing more than a \u201clollipop\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Baghel said the excise duty should have been slashed further like the way the Congress-led UPA government did during its tenure when it brought down the rates from \u20b930 to \u20b99.<\/p>\n<p>The Union government on Wednesday cut excise duty on petrol by \u20b95 per litre and that on diesel by \u20b910 a litre to bring relief for consumers battered by record-high retail fuel prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel on Friday took a swipe at the Narendra Modi-led Central government over its recent move to cut excise duty on fuel and said it was nothing more than a \u201clollipop\u201d. Baghel said the excise duty should have been slashed further like the way the Congress-led UPA government did during its tenure when it brought down the rates from \u20b930 to \u20b99. The Union government on Wednesday cut excise duty on petrol by \u20b95 per litre and that on diesel by \u20b910 a litre to bring relief for consumers battered by record-high retail fuel prices.<\/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-447879","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\/447879","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=447879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}