West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday despatched a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting him to scale back the taxes charged by the Centre on petrol and diesel “to examine the general inflation” within the nation.
Mamata stated that petrol costs had been hiked 8 instances since Might, with 6 instances being in June alone. She additionally stated the Centre has been always rising the cess part of central tax revenues, which resulted in denying the states their authentic share.
“I want to draw your consideration to the federal government of India coverage, which has introduced nice misery among the many widespread individuals of the nation. Shockingly, the retail value of petrol in lots of states throughout the county has crossed an unprecedented Rs 100 per litre,” she wrote.
At this time, @MamataOfficial wrote to the Hon’ble PM for lowering taxes on #petrol & #diesel.The unprecedented hike in #gas costs by the Central govt. has triggered extreme misery to the individuals of India and it’s about time that our PM takes cognizance of such pertinent points. pic.twitter.com/p2xeRnHmiO
— All India Trinamool Congress (@AITCofficial) July 5, 2021
Banerjee additionally acknowledged that her authorities has voluntarily given a rebate to each petrol and diesel “as a token of our empathy for the widespread individuals”.
“It’s my earnest request that the taxes charged by the Centre on petrol and diesel are considerably lowered to offer much-needed reduction to individuals and examine the general inflation pattern within the nation,” she added.
The TMC has additionally requested all its MLAs to stage protests on July 10-11 towards gas value hike, stated minister Partha Chatterjee.
Sources within the Trinamool Congress (TMC) informed News18 that All India Common Secretary Abhishek Banerjee may lead the protest towards gas value hike.
Earlier on Monday, Abhishek tweeted and questioned the Centre over the difficulty.
“Whereas individuals are going through extreme financial misery throughout #COVID19, @narendramodi Ji determined to grab the advantage of low crude oil costs by imposing report responsibility hikes. Nevertheless, when it’s rising once more, he passes on the hardship to widespread man. Disgraceful!” he wrote.
“As gas costs hit a HISTORIC HIGH, @BJP4India govt. appears to be working very arduous in the direction of including to the woes of the general public. Not a lot has modified from 2020. The identical previous blame sport continues whereas the calls for of the individuals of India are conveniently ignored!” he added in one other tweet.
(With PTI inputs)
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