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Congress has released an online campaign against regular fuel cost boosts
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday implicated the Union government of setting a ‘new example of forced extortion’ by raising fuel costs for 22 times and asked it to instantly roll back the boost, as part of the party’s online campaign against routine fuel rate boosts.
Ms. Gandhi charged the government with ‘profiteering’ at the expenditure of individuals instead of assisting them throughout today crisis. She called the fuel treks a ‘living evidence ‘of how the federal government can take away individuals’s tough generated income to fill its coffers.
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” After the March 25 lockdown, the Modi government, in the last three months, has actually raised the costs of gas and diesel 22 times. The price of diesel has gone up by11 a litre and that of petrol by 9.12 a litre. The Modi government has actually made provision for gathering lakhs of crores by raising excise duty in the last