It's shocking political hypocrisy. In may, congress president Rahul Gandhi dared India's Govt and prime minister to reduce taxes on petrol in diesel. Exactly two months later, come today, his alliance government in Karnataka has done exactly the opposite, raised taxes on petrol and diesel. The congress has no explanation to offer, other than exact same reasoning from the centre which was that taxes generated from fuel help fund welfare schemes, in this case a farm loan waiver. So the people of Karnataka will be paying more for petrol and diesel, and incidentally more even for electricity. The people of this country have thus been reduced to political lab rats. Where netas say one thing, do they other. Then walk off into the sunset laughing. The joke's on us. The congress party has showcased a wilful and very openly public hypocrisy, which it needs to either correct or explain. Else you the voter gets a chance to make them explain. Let's find out why Netas keep getting away from this kind of nonsense by asking them, here's what happened.
