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Ignoring the opposition’Bharat Bandh’ against rising fuel prices in the country, oil marketing companies again raised petrol and diesel prices today. It is fifth straight day of price hike.
In Delhi, petrol continued its upward march in the previously uncharted territory of above the Rs 80 mark — the price was raised by 23 paise a litre on Monday to Rs 80.73. The price of petrol in Delhi crossed the Rs 80 mark for first time on Saturday, September 8.
Similarly, petrol prices in Mumbai were raised by 22 paise to Rs 88.12 a litre.
Another key transport fuel, diesel, also witnessed a similar hike of 22 paise in Delhi and 23 paise in Mumbai. Diesel now costs Rs 72.83 a litre and Rs 77.32 in Delhi and Mumbai, respectively.
Opposition parties like the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S), Samajwadi Party (SP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Trinamool Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Maharashtra Navanirman Sena (MNS), led by the Congress party, have called for a ‘Bharat Bandh’ to protest the rising fuel prices in the country. Left parties have announced a separate shutdown of their own.
Congress leaders Sushil Kumar Shinde, Rajiv Satav and Amit Chavda in a press conference in Ahmedabad said that the Modi government pocketed Rs 11 trillion from the public by raising taxes on fuel and not including petrol and diesel under GST.