{"id":660556,"date":"2026-05-16T10:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660556"},"modified":"2026-05-16T10:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:13:25","slug":"petrol-diesel-price-hike-opposition-steps-up-attack-on-modi-govt-elections-over-vasooli-shru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-diesel-price-hike-opposition-steps-up-attack-on-modi-govt-elections-over-vasooli-shru\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol diesel price hike: Opposition steps up attack on Modi govt \u2013 \u2018Elections over, vasooli shru\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Petrol diesel price hike: The Opposition parties on 15 May launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Union government over fuel price hike announced on 15 May. The opposition accused PM Modi of unleashing \u2018the whip\u2019 on the public after the Centre increased petrol and diesel prices by \u20b93 across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress party linked the fuel price hike to the completion of the Assembly election in four states and one union territory saying that PM Modi&#8217;s \u2018vasooli (extortion) begins\u2019 after the elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petrol diesel price hike: The Opposition parties on 15 May launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Union government over fuel price hike announced on 15 May. The opposition accused PM Modi of unleashing \u2018the whip\u2019 on the public after the Centre increased petrol and diesel prices by \u20b93 across the country. The Congress party linked the fuel price hike to the completion of the Assembly election in four states and one union territory saying that PM Modi&#8217;s \u2018vasooli (extortion) begins\u2019 after the elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660556","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}