Centre fleecing poor with higher excise duty on gas: Congress MLA
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“The Manmohan Singh government taxed the affluent through direct taxes and spared the poor by keeping indirect taxes at a lower rate. But, the Narendra Modi government is doing the opposite,” Mr. Ashokan mentioned.
Sivakasi MLA G. Ashokan mentioned on June 11, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that got here to energy criticising the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) authorities within the Centre for prime gas worth, was now fleecing the widespread man with exorbitant worth of petrol and diesel regardless of decline in worldwide crude oil worth.
After staging a protest in entrance of a petroleum bunk in Sivakasi, the Congress MLA mentioned, “When crude oil price was $130 a barrel, under the UPA regime, the price of petrol and diesel was ₹71 and ₹58 per litre respectively. However, under the BJP rule, the price of petrol rose to ₹85 a litre when the crude oil price was $30 and has now touched ₹100 a litre when it is just $55.”
“The Manmohan Singh government taxed the affluent through direct taxes and spared the poor by keeping indirect taxes at a lower rate. But, the Narendra Modi government is doing the opposite,” Mr. Ashokan mentioned.
“Excise duty on fuel has increased at least three times in the last seven years, putting the poor and middle classes to untold suffering.” After fleecing the poor via oblique taxes, the Centre was not able to pay for his or her vaccines, he charged.
“Mr. Modi, in whose name a cricket stadium was inaugurated, has also hit a century by increasing the petrol price to over ₹100 a litre,” he mentioned.
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