JHARSUGUDA(Odisha): Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing a public gathering in Jharsuguda, accused the Congress government in Himachal Pradesh of “blocking” relief measures initiated by the Centre by imposing extra taxes on fuel and cement despite cuts by the Centre and alleged that wherever the Congress is in power, it “loots” the people.

“The Congress government is in power in Himachal. The Congress has gotten into the habit of hurling all sorts of abuses at me. When we reduced the GST rates, prices came down across the country, but Congress does not want to give this relief to the common people. Earlier, when we had reduced the prices of diesel and petrol, wherever there were Congress governments, they imposed a second tax on diesel and petrol there, keeping the prices the sa

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