{"id":448269,"date":"2021-11-08T11:36:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T06:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=448269"},"modified":"2021-11-08T11:36:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T06:06:08","slug":"petrol-diesel-prices-bjp-ramps-up-offensive-plans-rallies-demanding-west-bengal-cut-vat-on-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-diesel-prices-bjp-ramps-up-offensive-plans-rallies-demanding-west-bengal-cut-vat-on-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol, diesel prices: BJP ramps up offensive, plans rallies demanding West Bengal cut VAT on fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP on Sunday announced it will hit the streets for five days from November 8 in West Bengal to press for the demand that the Mamata Banerjee government slash Value Added Tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel.<\/p>\n<p>BJP state unit vice-president Raju Banerjee said the party will take out a rally from its headquarters at around 1 pm on Monday. \u201cOur state president Sukanta Majumder, leader of the opposition Suvendu Adhikari, national vice-president Dilip Ghosh and other senior leaders will participate in the rally which will be held following Covid-19 protocols. If the police try to stop us, we will act accordingly,\u201d he said.Banerjee did not reveal the route of the proposed protest rally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP on Sunday announced it will hit the streets for five days from November 8 in West Bengal to press for the demand that the Mamata Banerjee government slash Value Added Tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel. BJP state unit vice-president Raju Banerjee said the party will take out a rally from its headquarters at around 1 pm on Monday. \u201cOur state president Sukanta Majumder, leader of the opposition Suvendu Adhikari, national vice-president Dilip Ghosh and other senior leaders will participate in the rally which will be held following Covid-19 protocols. If the police try to stop us, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,195,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448269","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}