{"license":"Free to use with attribution to Vaada Meter (license terms to be finalised)","methodVersion":"1.0","generatedAt":"2026-10-06T07:29:06.463Z","data":{"id":"inc-ls-1991-008","text":"Ensure indirect taxes do not push up prices of listed essential items like salt, cycles and sarees","quote":"ensure that indirect taxes do not unduly add to the prices of essential commodities. Of the items listed in the manifesto ...","quoteIsExact":false,"quoteLanguage":"en","quoteEnglish":null,"page":null,"sector":"tax","measurability":"directional","importance":"minor","deadline":"1996-05-16","deadlineType":"implied","status":"kept","rating":10,"ratingRule":"kept","provisional":false,"confidence":"medium","reason":"The first budget reported that most items on the manifesto list (salt, cycles, newsprint, postcards, certain stoves) already carried no excise, and fully exempted edible oils, higher-wattage bulbs and energy-efficient chulhas.","evidence":[{"date":"1991-07-24","sourceType":"budget","publisher":"Ministry of Finance","title":"Budget Speech 1991-92 (Manmohan Singh)","url":"https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/doc/bspeech/bs199192.pdf","quote":"Of the items listed in the manifesto, at present, there is no excise duty on salt, cycles, newsprint, post cards, inland letters and envelopes, and certain varieties of stoves.","stance":"supports"}],"tags":["excise","prices"],"sensitive":false,"memeLine":null,"review":{"state":"ai_draft","draftedBy":"research-agent","draftedAt":"2026-10-05","reviewedBy":null,"approvedBy":null},"manifestoId":"inc-ls-1991","partyId":"inc","electionId":"ls-1991"}}