Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor on March 22 slammed the Centre over fuel price hike across the country and said that the government interfered with market pricing to avoid hurting the voters before elections.“Government has interfered with market pricing to avoid hurting the voters before elections and soon after that they allow prices to go up again. This is unjustified because the largest portion of what we pay at petrol pumps and gas cylinders is in terms of taxes,” said Tharoor.“If the government really wanted to alleviate the pain of the common man of India they should have reduced the taxes instead of increasing the price,” he added.

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