Mangaluru
The Congress government in Karnataka is engaged in looting the state in the name of guarantee schemes, said BJP State General Secretary V Sunil Kumar. He told media persons that Chief MinisterSiddaramaiah has initiated the process of filling the empty exchequer of the state by signing the order to hike the cess on petrol by Rs 3 per litre.
Even after plundering people by levying additional taxes through all possible revenue sources, the state exchequer is collapsing day by day.
There is a huge deficit of Rs 13,000 crore in the revenue collection this year. As a result, the government has taken steps to fill the coffers of the exchequer by making people pay additional taxes, said Kumar.
Recalling the protests that the Congress launched against the central govt when the price of fuel increased earlier, the MLA said that all states ruled by the BJP had reduced the petrol cess then. Now, the govt has increased the cess on petrol even before the budget, he said.
It is necessary that we launch a statewide protest against the hike in cess on petrol. If the situation continues like this, the Congress government may impose a tax on the oxygen that we breathe too in the future,he added. MP CaptBrijeshChowta said that the Congress government has made life of people miserable by hiking the cess on petrol and diesel.
He stated that the government has hiked the cess as it is struggling to strike a balance between the implementation of unscientific guarantee schemes and the development of the state. The government should immediately withdraw the decision in the interest of the people,he said.
