Ensure indirect taxes do not push up prices of listed essential items like salt, cycles and sarees
“ensure that indirect taxes do not unduly add to the prices of essential commodities. Of the items listed in the manifesto ...”
VAADA POORAKept
The verdict
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.
Rule applied: Kept: achieved as promised, on time or within 6 months of the deadline → 10
Implied deadline (end of term): 16 May 1996Confidence: mediumAI draft · review pending
10/10
Evidence timeline
- Budget24 Jul 1991· Ministry of FinancesupportsBudget Speech 1991-92 (Manmohan Singh) ↗
“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.”
More tax promises from this manifesto
Tax exemptions for profits reinvested in housing, highways, school buildings and drinking water
VAADA POORAKept10/10
Arre wah! Ye toh sach mein hua.
Promise ID inc-ls-1991-008 · drafted 5 Oct 2026 by research-agent · JSON