{"license":"Free to use with attribution to Vaada Meter (license terms to be finalised)","methodVersion":"1.0","generatedAt":"2026-10-05T13:15:13.740Z","data":{"id":"bjp-ga-2022-003","text":"No increase in state duties on petrol and diesel for three years","quote":"We shall not increase the state duties on petrol and diesel for the next three years.","quoteIsExact":true,"quoteLanguage":"en","quoteEnglish":null,"page":3,"sector":"tax","measurability":"measurable","importance":"headline","deadline":"2025-03-28","deadlineType":"stated","status":"broken","rating":0,"ratingRule":"broken","provisional":false,"confidence":"medium","reason":"The finance department raised VAT on petrol to 21.5% and on diesel to 17.5% from 22 June 2024, raising pump prices by Re 1 and 36 paise. That was within three years of the March 2022 swearing-in. The report cites the notification; the gazette itself was not opened.","evidence":[{"date":"2022-02-08","sourceType":"manifesto","publisher":"BJP Goa Pradesh","title":"Goa Sankalp Patra 2022 (English), PDF p. 3","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250511130843/https://www.bjp.org/files/election-manifesto-documents/Manifesto%20Goa%20English.pdf","quote":"We shall not increase the state duties on petrol and diesel for the next three years.","stance":"context"},{"date":"2024-06-22","sourceType":"news","publisher":"O Heraldo","title":"First, Goans pounded by power, then petrol hike","url":"https://www.heraldgoa.in/?p=12342","quote":"Motor spirit, which is commonly known as petrol ... has been hiked to 21.5 per cent and for High Speed Diesel Oil (HSD) it has been hiked to 17.5 per cent.","stance":"contradicts"}],"tags":["vat","fuel"],"sensitive":false,"memeLine":"Three years of no hikes lasted until the third June.","review":{"state":"ai_draft","draftedBy":"research-agent","draftedAt":"2026-10-05","reviewedBy":null,"approvedBy":null},"manifestoId":"bjp-ga-2022","partyId":"bjp","electionId":"ga-2022"}}