West Bengal : Mamta wrote a letter to the Prime Minister on the rising prices of auto fuel

In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the central government of increasing the prices of petrol and diesel arbitrarily, and said that the Center was snatching away the state’s revenue share by increasing the cess amount. It is against the federal structure of the country. The Chief Minister has written in the letter, I have come to know that from May 4, 2021, the prices of petrol and diesel were increased eight times by your government, and out of these, the prices were increased only six times in the month of June and shockingly, The hike was done four times in a week. The brutal hike in the prices of petrol and diesel has affected the common people the most adversely and directly affected the alarmingly rising inflation in the country.

Mamta wrote, you know that the Wholesale Price Index in the country increased by 12.94 percent in May 2021 as compared to May 2020. Similarly, the Consumer Price Index rose by 6.30 per cent, where the prices of edible oils used by mangoes were. In the midst of the pandemic, there was an increase of 30.8 percent in people per day, 15.2 percent in eggs, 12 percent in fruits and 8.44 percent in health items.

The Chief Minister alleged, in fact, in the last six years of your government, there has been a 370 per cent increase in the tax collection of the Government of India from oil and petroleum products since 2014-15 due to the continuous increase in Central Excise duty on oil and petroleum products. happened.

She further said that amid the COVID pandemic, the Government of India had collected revenue of Rs 3.71 lakh crore from oil and petroleum products in the financial year 2020-21.

Mamta said, here I can mention that the West Bengal government has voluntarily given exemption on both petrol and diesel as a token of our sympathy for the common people. I am also concerned about the fact that the Government of India is continuously increasing the cess component. of central tax revenue, resulting in deprivation of states from their legitimate share of 42 per cent of the tax collected by the Government of India, as the cess accrues entirely with the Government of India, without sharing it with the states. The anti-federal structure trend has developed over the years, I sincerely urge you to stay away from it.