People paying more taxes on petrol now than during Cong rule:

Delhi Congress today said people in the national capital are now paying much more on VAT and excise duty on petrol and diesel than during Congress regime.
The party launched a three-day long signature campaign to garner people's support to its demand to roll back the hike in VAT and excise duty on diesel and petrol in the national capital.
"People in Delhi are paying much more on VAT and Excise duty that is imposed on petrol than during previous Congress rule in the state. They are spending Rs 54 as tax, on excise and VAT, on petrol worth Rs 100 after the latest hike while during the Congress rule, they had to spend only Rs 31," Delhi Congress president Ajay Maken said in a statement.

He joined the party workers at petrol pumps to collect people's signatures at the launch of the campaign during which the party aims to collect 10 lakh signatures.
Attacking both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for increasing taxes on petrol and diesel, he said the signatures collected by party workers will be presented to them and demand a roll back of the taxes.
"The periodic hikes in excise duty and VAT have contributed to the inflated rate of petrol and diesel and if the central and Delhi governments rolled back these taxes, then petrol could be sold in Delhi for Rs 38 per litre and diesel for Rs 30 per litre, considering the sharp fall in the prices of crude oil in the international market," he said.

On the first day of the campaign, the party claimed to have got the around 3.80 lakh signatures of the people at various petrol pumps.