Interacting with mediapersons on the conclusion of the election campaign for Shimla Muncipal Corporation polls, Dhumal said any decision in this regard would be taken after the Congress-ruled states like Maharashtra, where tax on petrol and diesel were "exorbitantly high", cut VAT on petroleum products.
He said his government had already lowered the VAT on petrol from 27 to 20 percent and on diesel from 20 to 14 percent and than further to 9.70 percent and UPA should first advise Congress and its allies to cut VAT on petrol.
Dhumal said it was strange that the Centre, which has the biggest kitty of funds collected through direct and indirect taxes, was asking the states, passing through "financial crunch" to take the lead and was not coming forward to give succor to the people."
Claiming that BJP would wrest the prestigious SMC from Congress this time, Dhumal accused Congress, which controlled SMC for the past 26 years, for the "total mess" in the civic body.
The SMC owed Rs 131 crore as arrears of electricity bills and had no money to pay, he said adding only BJP could bring the Corporation out of debt, he said.
Dismissing as "baseless" the charges of Congress that the BJP government was discriminating against Congress-ruled SMC, Dhumal said the government had released Rs 80 crore during four years while the previous Congress government provided only Rs 25 crore to the fund-starved civic body.