At Parliamentary panel assembly, chairman rejects questions on fuel price hike
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Instead, the BJP chief, Ramesh Bidhuri, shifts the blame on States for imposing extra taxes.
Amid extreme criticism of frequent hike in fuel costs, questions on the problem by Opposition leaders at a gathering of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Petroleum on Friday had been shut down by Chairman and BJP chief Ramesh Bidhuri by shifting the blame on States for imposing extra taxes.
According to knowledgeable sources, the committee, which was assembly to debate the demand for grants, noticed the Opposition members query Petroleum Ministry officers and representatives of oil advertising and marketing firms.
Petrol is now retailing above ₹90 per litre in all main cities, together with Delhi, and is on the verge of crossing ₹100.
The members needed to know why regardless of a historic low within the price of worldwide crude oil costs the fuel costs are spiralling. “But the Chairman did not let us ask the questions saying that the meeting is solely to discuss the budgetary provisions and a separate meeting will be held for the fuel price hike,” a member stated.
Mr. Bidhuri blamed the State governments for the hike as a substitute of the Centre. “He said States should waive the tax to reduce the burden. And the only solution to rationalise the fuel prices is to bring them under the GST regime which will save the common man from multiple taxes levied by both the Centre and States,” one other member stated.
The Opposition-run States have up to now opposed the concept since this can adversely impression their income assortment, which has already been shrunk underneath the GST regime.
Mr. Bidhuri advised The Puucho that the topic of ‘fuel prices’ was already on the agreed record of agenda for the committee’s deliberations. “We will soon call a meeting on the subject once we dispose of the budget deliberations,” he stated.
The Congress, at a press convention on Friday, stated that in 2014, the crude oil price was $108.05 per barrel and as on date it was $63.65. Despite this, in 2014 in Delhi, the price of petrol was ₹71.51 per litre whereas on Friday it stood at ₹90.19 per litre. The value of crude oil had diminished by 41% whereas the price of petrol had risen by 26%.
The CPI(M), in an announcement on Thursday, had identified that the tax levied by the Centre elevated by a whopping 217% because the Modi authorities took over in 2014.
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