BJP utilizing electoral victory as license to loot nation: Former Union Minister Salman Khurshid

By PTI

GUWAHATI: Former Union Minister Salman Khurshid on Saturday got here down closely on the Narendra Modi-led central authorities over the value rise of important commodities, claiming that the celebration was utilizing its “electoral victory as a license to loot the nation and its people”.

Addressing a press meet right here as a part of his celebration’s nationwide marketing campaign towards worth rise, the senior Congress chief alleged that the Centre was not taking any step to examine the spiralling charges.

The authorities offers “price rise in petrol and diesel as gift” to folks each morning, he quipped.

Prices of petrol and diesel have gone up by Rs 10 per litre throughout India in 16 days.

The veteran chief additionally acknowledged that “There has been a 531 per cent excise duty hike on diesel and 203 per cent on petrol since the BJP-led NDA assumed power in 2014.”

“The Modi government has accrued Rs 26 lakh crore in eight years by increasing excise duty on petrol and diesel alone,” he claimed.

The improve within the worth of cooking fuel and hike in toll tax on nationwide highways have been burning a gap in folks’s pockets, he maintained.

“The Modi government has not spared patients too. The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has announced a hike of 10.76 per cent in prices of around 800 essential drugs from April 1,” he identified.

Khurshid additionally famous that housing costs and building prices have gone up, whereas extra tax deduction on dwelling mortgage for first-time patrons has been abolished.

“There is no sphere where prices have not increased. The Modi government remains responsible for this theft. The party has used its electoral victory as a license to loot the nation and its people,” the senior Congress chief added.