{"id":487926,"date":"2022-04-29T10:51:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T05:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=487926"},"modified":"2022-04-29T13:28:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T07:58:56","slug":"you-hiked-fuel-tax-you-reduce-them-tamil-nadu-tells-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/you-hiked-fuel-tax-you-reduce-them-tamil-nadu-tells-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You hiked fuel tax, you reduce them&#8217;, Tamil Nadu tells Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a strong response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s statement that Opposition-ruled states not reducing fuel taxes in synchronisation with the Centre has burdened people there, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday said the remarks are akin to \u201ctrying to cover a pumpkin in a handful of rice.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Stalin and Finance Minister P T R Palanivel Thiaga Rajan tore into the Union Government by accusing it of \u201cdevouring\u201d Rs 26 lakh crore rupees from fuel prices in the last 8 years. Rajan said the Centre still levies an additional tax of Rs 18.42 per litre for petrol,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a strong response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s statement that Opposition-ruled states not reducing fuel taxes in synchronisation with the Centre has burdened people there, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday said the remarks are akin to \u201ctrying to cover a pumpkin in a handful of rice.\u201d Stalin and Finance Minister P T R Palanivel Thiaga Rajan tore into the Union Government by accusing it of \u201cdevouring\u201d Rs 26 lakh crore rupees from fuel prices in the last 8 years. Rajan said the Centre still levies an additional tax of Rs 18.42 per litre for petrol,<\/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-487926","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\/487926","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=487926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}