After a long silence following the humiliating defeat of her party in the assembly elections held earlier this year, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, on Friday, attacked the government over the rising fuel prices.
Through her tweet on Friday, Priyanka Vadra said that the Centre hiked taxes on petrol and diesel by 250 per cent between 2014-15 and 2020-21.
Her attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government came amid a political slugfest over Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagging higher fuel prices in many opposition-ruled states.
The opposition chief ministers have launched an offensive against the prime minister on the issue of tax cuts on petroleum products.
“The Central government increased the tax collection on petrol and diesel by 250 per cent between 2014-15 and 2020-21. In 2014, the excise duty charged was only Rs 9.48 on petrol and Rs 3.56 on diesel,” Priyanka Vadra asserted.
She also tagged a media report which said that the Central government increased excise duty on fuel by 250 per cent in six years.
