Congress is doing opportunistic cheap politics on the issue of tolls
On the issue of tolls, tamil Nadu bjp spokesperson Narayanan tirupati claims that the congress is engaging in opportunistic cheap tactics. In a statement released today, he chastised the tamil Nadu congress for criticising the Modi government for hiking charges on national highway toll plazas beginning today. Who struck the deals with private companies to build the roads and set the tolls at the toll booths? Why should the ruling party do one thing and the opposition party do another?
National highways were mostly sponsored by the state in india prior to 2004, when the Vajpayee-led bjp regime was in power. It's worth noting that the contracts for road maintenance were limited for six years. However, as soon as the United Progressive Alliance government took office in the middle of the decade, the limits were relaxed and the route to additional privatisation was laid. It's worth noting that these contracts were signed for a period of 20 to 30 years.
The then-Congress administration made arrangements with the corporate sector, particularly in areas like tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, and forced them to invest. To that aim, revisions were made to the Monopoly and Restricted Trade Rules, and the National Highway Tolls Rules 2008 were legally agreed upon under the congress regime, of which DR Palu was the Union minister of Tobacco, to increase tariffs on april 1 of each year based on the Wholesale Price Index.