{"id":479321,"date":"2022-03-28T08:57:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T03:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=479321"},"modified":"2022-03-28T09:12:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T03:42:46","slug":"shameless-fleecing-of-public-must-stop-cong-on-fuel-price-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/shameless-fleecing-of-public-must-stop-cong-on-fuel-price-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Shameless fleecing&#8217; of public must stop: Cong on fuel price hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Saturday attacked the BJP after petrol and diesel prices were increased for the fourth time in five days, saying this &#8220;shameless fleecing&#8221; of the public must stop.<\/p>\n<p>Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi took a swipe at the government over the rising prices of fuel, saying &#8220;King prepares for palace, while subjects reel under inflation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Petrol and diesel prices were hiked by 80 paise a litre each on Saturday, the fourth increase in five days as oil firms passed on to consumers the spike in cost of raw material.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet in Hindi, Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said, &#8220;Inflation in Modi government &#8211; &#8216;date new, problem same. This morning also started with rising prices. Today again the rate was increased by Rs 0.80.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Saturday attacked the BJP after petrol and diesel prices were increased for the fourth time in five days, saying this &#8220;shameless fleecing&#8221; of the public must stop. Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi took a swipe at the government over the rising prices of fuel, saying &#8220;King prepares for palace, while subjects reel under inflation.&#8221; Petrol and diesel prices were hiked by 80 paise a litre each on Saturday, the fourth increase in five days as oil firms passed on to consumers the spike in cost of raw material. In a tweet in Hindi, Congress chief spokesperson Randeep [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479321","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=479321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}