Individuals enduring because of swelling, government occupied in duty assortment: Rahul

 Cornering the public authority on spiraling fuel costs, the Congress on Sunday requested a clarification how precisely has the public authority burned through ₹20 lakh crore that it acquired by numerous climbs in extract obligation on both petroleum and diesel. 

Previous Congress president Rahul Gandhi in a tweet in Hindi said the Modi government had figured out how to get colossal development "Gross domestic product — Gas-Diesel-Petrol". And keeping in mind that the individuals are enduring because of swelling, the public authority is occupied in assessment assortment, Mr. Gandhi said. 

Gathering general secretary Ajay Maken at a question and answer session at the Congress central command called attention to extract obligation on diesel has been climbed by 820% and 258% on petroleum. 

"At the point when the Congress-UPA government was in force, the cost of unrefined petroleum was $108 per barrel, yet petroleum and diesel were at ₹71.51 and ₹57.28 per liter, which have expanded to ₹85.70 and ₹75.88 in Delhi today in spite of the unrefined petroleum being far not exactly 50% of UPA rates," Mr. Maken said. 

Without the extract obligation, the cost of petroleum will be ₹61.92 per liter and diesel ₹47.51 per liter. The extract obligation on petroleum is ₹23.78 per liter and on diesel ₹28.37. In May 2014, Mr. Maken stated, the extract obligation on petroleum was simply ₹9.20 per liter and on diesel ₹3.46 per liter. 

"The Modi government has acquired ₹20,00,000 crore in the last six and half years by expanding the extract obligation on petroleum and diesel alone." 

Mr. Maken blamed the public authority for fleecing the average person and filling the pockets of a limited handful corporate gatherings who are well disposed with it. 

"The public authority ought to clarify where precisely has this cash gone considering it has frozen dearness stipend of government workers and pretty much every part of society is feeling the squeeze," he said.