Hyderabad: TRS working president and IT minister K.T. Rama Rao lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP government at the Centre for not lowering the high fuel price even when the global crude prices were falling.
In a media statement, he said the Modi government's excuse that international crude oil prices were the reason for the increase in fuel prices in the country had once again been proven wrong.
Rama Rao said, "If the price of a barrel of crude oil decreases internationally, the people of the country should be benefited. However, the Modi government does not want that to happen. That is why the BJP government is increasing excise duties and cesses (sic)."
Since 2014, in these eight years, the Centre has increased fuel prices so many times and looted more than 26 lakh crore rupees from the people in the form of fuel taxes and cesses. The Modi government is exploiting the common people and serving the corporate. As they are too busy serving the interests of the corporates, they do not have any concern towards the sufferings of the poor and the middle classes, he alleged.
