{"id":487359,"date":"2022-04-28T08:57:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T03:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=487359"},"modified":"2022-04-28T09:20:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T03:50:42","slug":"pm-modi-calls-out-opposition-ruled-states-says-some-didnt-cut-fuel-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pm-modi-calls-out-opposition-ruled-states-says-some-didnt-cut-fuel-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi calls out Opposition-ruled states, says some didn&#8217;t cut fuel tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a meeting with chief ministers of states on the Covid-19 situ\u00adation in the country. However, Prime Minister Narendra Modi brou\u00adg\u00adht up a rather touchy topic with reg\u00ada\u00adrds to Centre-state relations: fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p>Calling out Opposition-ruled states by name, Modi on Wednesday said some states did not reduce the value-added tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel despite the excise duty cut by the Centre last November and did \u201cinjustice\u201d to the people by not transferring the benefits of the move to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome states reduced taxes but some states did not give any benefit of this to the people. Due to this, the prices of petrol and diesel in these states continue to remain high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a meeting with chief ministers of states on the Covid-19 situ\u00adation in the country. However, Prime Minister Narendra Modi brou\u00adg\u00adht up a rather touchy topic with reg\u00ada\u00adrds to Centre-state relations: fuel prices. Calling out Opposition-ruled states by name, Modi on Wednesday said some states did not reduce the value-added tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel despite the excise duty cut by the Centre last November and did \u201cinjustice\u201d to the people by not transferring the benefits of the move to them. \u201cSome states reduced taxes but some states did not give any benefit of this to the people. [&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-487359","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\/487359","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=487359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}