{"id":480739,"date":"2022-03-31T11:05:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T05:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=480739"},"modified":"2022-03-31T12:40:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T07:10:49","slug":"daily-extortion-congress-slams-centre-over-rising-fuel-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/daily-extortion-congress-slams-centre-over-rising-fuel-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily extortion&#8217;: Congress slams Centre over rising fuel prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Wednesday slammed the Centre over an &#8220;unabated&#8221; hike in fuel prices and termed it &#8220;extortion&#8221; by the Modi government. <\/p>\n<p>Taking to Twitter, party General Secretary Randeep Surjewala said, &#8220;Daily attack..Daily extortion&#8230;.Daily exploitation..by Modi Govt on common man&#8217;s budget continues unabated!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 8th increase has taken the #PetrolDieselPriceHike today to 5.60\/litre. Is there an end date to this &#8220;loot&#8221;? Is PM unaccountable to people? Is there an answer?&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, the domestic retail selling prices of petrol and diesel were increased for the eighth time in nine days.<\/p>\n<p>Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said: &#8220;Who told the BJP that drip torture is more saleable to the public than the guillotine?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Wednesday slammed the Centre over an &#8220;unabated&#8221; hike in fuel prices and termed it &#8220;extortion&#8221; by the Modi government. Taking to Twitter, party General Secretary Randeep Surjewala said, &#8220;Daily attack..Daily extortion&#8230;.Daily exploitation..by Modi Govt on common man&#8217;s budget continues unabated!&#8221; &#8220;The 8th increase has taken the #PetrolDieselPriceHike today to 5.60\/litre. Is there an end date to this &#8220;loot&#8221;? Is PM unaccountable to people? Is there an answer?&#8221; he added. This morning, the domestic retail selling prices of petrol and diesel were increased for the eighth time in nine days. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said: &#8220;Who told the [&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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480739","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=480739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}