FinMin accuses TN of double speak over fuel taxes
The Hindu
Says State hiked rates by ₹7 before reduction of ₹3
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday took on the DMK administration in Tamil Nadu for reducing State levies on petroleum products by ₹3 a litre, after an earlier hike of ₹7 a litre, and accused it of being party to the UPA’s ‘trickery’ of lowering fuel prices by issuing oil bonds. Conceding that consumers were justified in wishing for lower fuel prices, Ms Sitharaman, however, didn’t signal any imminent relief from the Centre on the excise duties and cess it levies, stressing that fuel prices are ‘a very difficult issue’ and ‘the Petroleum Ministry is seized of the matter’.More Related News