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| DF&SS takes out protest rally against rising fuel prices | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 2: The workers of Dogra Front (DF) and Shiv Sena (SS) under the leadership of their president Ashok Gupta took out a rally in Raipur-Satwari against the high prices of petrol and diesel. The protesters lodged their protest by riding the bullock carts. They demanded that the petrol and diesel prices should be bought under GST expressing that the high prices of the petrol and diesel has made it impossible to ride the car or scooter.
The price of petrol has risen above the Rs 100 mark in all the states of the country. The government has blamed rising international crude oil prices for the increase in domestic fuel prices. India imports more than 80% of its oil supplies and the price of crude oil in the international market does have a significant impact on domestic fuel prices, said Ashok Gupta.
However, high taxes are also seen as a major reason for the rise in fuel prices. It should be noted that more than half of the money paid by the consumer to purchase fuels goes towards some tax or the other he added.
Gupta stated that GST is being thought to be a solution for the problem of near-record high petrol and diesel rates in the country, as it would end the cascading effect of tax on tax (state VAT being levied not just on the cost of production but also on the excise duty charged by the Centre on such output).
The party people who were present at the time of protest were Abhishek, Ashish, Deepu, Kalu, Brij, Sukhdev and several others. |
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