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'Organised loot' of Rs 2.86 lakh crore from people's pockets: Surjewala accuses govt
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Dated:- 10-8-2026
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New Delhi, Aug 10 (PTI) Congress leader Randeep Surjewala on Monday accused the government of an “organised loot” of Rs 2.86 lakh crore from the pockets of the common people, as profits of state-run oil marketing companies indicated.<\/p>\n

In a post on X, he claimed that the government earlier deliberately tried to hide the profit margins of oil marketing companies behind the excuse of “commercial confidentiality” and said this undeniable truth of “organized loot” was officially exposed in the answer to my question in the Rajya Sabha.<\/p>\n

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profits? Brutal retail price hikes! By mid-2026, retail petrol prices in Delhi were pushed to a staggering Rs 102.12 per litre,” he said in his post on X, while sharing the government's answer in Rajya Sabha.<\/p>\n

Making a comparison of oil prices during the Congress-UPA era and the BJP-NDA era, the Congress leader said under Congress – UPA the government actively shielded your household budget.<\/p>\n

“Even when international crude oil prices soared well over USD 100 per barrel, Petrol was kept affordable at around Rs 71 per litre. This was possible because the Central Excise Duty was kept low at just Rs 9.48 per litre. The government absorbed the global price shocks to protect the middle class.<\/p>\n

“Under BJP-NDA: The government weaponized fuel<\/p>\n

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‘Organised loot’ of Rs 2.86 lakh crore from people’s pockets: Surjewala accuses govtGSTDated:- 10-8-2026PTINew Delhi, Aug 10 (PTI) Congress leader Randeep Surjewala on Monday accused the government of an “organised loot” of Rs 2.86 lakh crore from the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}