New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has taken a dig at the Union government over its tax collections on petrol and diesel, asking whether it is a government or a ‘greedy money lender from old Hindi films’.
Tagging a media report, he said, “On one hand they are provoking people to take loans, on the other hand they are earning indiscriminately through tax extortion.’ He added: ‘Is it a government or a greedy money lender from old Hindi films?”
He also used the hashtag ‘#TaxExtortion’. Rahul said this a day after the Lok Sabha was informed that the Union government’s tax collections on petrol and diesel jumped by 88 per cent to Rs 3.35 lakh crore in the last fiscal.