{"id":596492,"date":"2023-08-08T10:10:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T04:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=596492"},"modified":"2023-08-08T10:45:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T05:15:54","slug":"fuel-prices-increased-more-during-upa-than-nda-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fuel-prices-increased-more-during-upa-than-nda-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel prices increased more during UPA than NDA: Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The price of petrol rose 90% and diesel 96% during the tenure of Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government against 33% and 74%, respectively, in the nine years of the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance dispensation.<\/p>\n<p>Petrol price in Delhi, considered a reference for government calculations, increased from Rs 37.99 a litre to Rs 72.26 and diesel from Rs 28.22 to Rs 55.49 between 2005 and 2014, minister of state for petroleum Rameshwar Teli told the Rajya Sabha in reply to a question by BJP\u2019s Sushil Modi. <\/p>\n<p>In contrast, according to the reply, petrol price increased from Rs 72.26 per litre to Rs 96.72 and diesel from Rs 55.49 to Rs 89.62 between 2014 and 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The price of petrol rose 90% and diesel 96% during the tenure of Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government against 33% and 74%, respectively, in the nine years of the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance dispensation. Petrol price in Delhi, considered a reference for government calculations, increased from Rs 37.99 a litre to Rs 72.26 and diesel from Rs 28.22 to Rs 55.49 between 2005 and 2014, minister of state for petroleum Rameshwar Teli told the Rajya Sabha in reply to a question by BJP\u2019s Sushil Modi. In contrast, according to the reply, petrol price increased from Rs 72.26 [&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":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596492","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=596492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}