{"id":449038,"date":"2021-11-10T10:58:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T05:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=449038"},"modified":"2021-11-10T12:20:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T06:50:14","slug":"cong-leaders-hold-protest-demand-cut-in-vat-on-petrol-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cong-leaders-hold-protest-demand-cut-in-vat-on-petrol-diesel\/","title":{"rendered":"Cong leaders hold protest, demand cut in VAT on petrol, diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large number of Delhi Congress workers held a dharna outside the Delhi Secretariat, demanding the Delhi Government to reduce  \u2018Value Added Tax\u2019 (VAT) on petrol and diesel.<\/p>\n<p>Delhi Congress president Anil Kumar said that despite many State Governments, including Punjab, reducing VAT on petroleum products following a nominal reduction on excise duty by the Centre, the Delhi Government has not followed the suit, though Chief Minister Arvind had toured  poll-bound Punjab and promised to \u2018replicate\u2019 the \u201cDelhi model of development\u201d there.<\/p>\n<p>Kumar said \u201cIf Kejriwal is ready to implement the Delhi model of development in Punjab then why cannot he implement the idea of reducing oil prices in Delhi as done by the Punjab Government. \u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large number of Delhi Congress workers held a dharna outside the Delhi Secretariat, demanding the Delhi Government to reduce \u2018Value Added Tax\u2019 (VAT) on petrol and diesel. Delhi Congress president Anil Kumar said that despite many State Governments, including Punjab, reducing VAT on petroleum products following a nominal reduction on excise duty by the Centre, the Delhi Government has not followed the suit, though Chief Minister Arvind had toured poll-bound Punjab and promised to \u2018replicate\u2019 the \u201cDelhi model of development\u201d there. Kumar said \u201cIf Kejriwal is ready to implement the Delhi model of development in Punjab then why cannot [&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":[130,211,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449038","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=449038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}