The campaign is aimed at rallying the people who are active on social media to put pressure on the Centre and Maharashtra government to reduce the fuel prices.
Condemning the reduction of fuel prices by just 1 paisa per litre after 16 days of relentless price hike, the Mumbai Congress on Wednesday said it would launch a social media campaign on June 2 to express its anguish.
As a part of the online campaign, titled "Tweet Morcha", the Opposition would mobilise people to post tweets to PM Narendra Modi and CM Devendra Fadnavis over the issue and suggest ways to reduce the fuel prices, Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam said.
The campaign is aimed at rallying the people who are active on social media to put pressure on the Centre and Maharashtra government to reduce the fuel prices.
"The fuel prices are being increased for the last 16 days. Now, the petrol and diesel prices have been reduced by 1 paisa. This is a cruel joke and we condemn it," he said.
Nirupam along with prominent 'twitteratis' will collectively start posting tweets to Fadnavis and Modi asking them to reduce the petrol and diesel prices.
"We will also tweet on how fuel prices can be reduced. Maharashtra collects nearly 40 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) on petrol per litre. We will tweet to Fadnavis to reduce VAT on petrol," Nirupam said.
The Central Excise duty has been increased by 211 per cent on petrol and 400 per cent on diesel in the last four years. "We will ask the prime minister to reduce the Excise on petrol. Similarly, we will also ask for removal of these two taxes on fuel and bring it under the Goods and Services Tax (GST), which is 28 per cent," the Congress leader said.
Meanwhile, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Wednesday organised a morcha against fuel price hike in Mumbai. NCP spokesman Nawab Malik led the protest by riding a bullock cart while other party workers pushed their fuel-based two-wheelers instead of riding them.
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