"4-5 Businessmen Benefitting From Fuel Price Rise": Rahul Gandhi In Goa
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The Congress leader is in the coastal state for a day-long visit ahead of assembly elections due early next year.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today hit out at the BJP on increasing fuel prices. He pointed out that crude oil prices were much higher when the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was in power and yet, people are forced to pay more now when fuel prices in the international market are lower. We fought elections in Chhattisgarh and promised to waive the loan of farmers and we did it. You can go and confirm it in Punjab, Karnataka also. Whatever goes in our manifesto is a guarantee, not only a promise: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Goa pic.twitter.com/fc2YCZCarb
"During the UPA government, international fuel prices reached $140 per barrel. Today, fuel prices are much lower in the international market but still, you pay more. Today India is taxing fuel at the highest rate in the world," he was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
The Congress leader is in the coastal state for a day-long visit ahead of assembly elections due early next year.