Congress MP Shashi Tharoor tweeted the cartoon on Tuesday
New Delhi:
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor tweeted a cartoon of yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Tuesday evening to take a swipe at the centre over soaring petrol and diesel prices.
The cartoon showed Baba Ramdev in a headstand pose at a fuel station, while looking at a placard with the text Litre Rs 90 written on it. The image also contains a caption in Malayalam, which Mr Tharoor translated and posted with his tweet. If you took yoga lessons from Baba Ramdev, you too could seey petrol prices at 06 rupees a litre! Mr Tharoor - who is the Lok Sabha MP for Kerala s Thiruvananthapuram - wrote.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee slammed the Centre over rising fuel prices which have become one of the heated political issues to corner the Centre
The more things change, the more they remain the same for fuel consumers. In March 2020, the crash in international oil prices prompted the NDA government to sharply raise taxes on petroleum products
A jibe floating on social media featured in Parliament today as the government faced questions on soaring fuel prices. An opposition MP questioned why the prices of petrol and diesel were lower in neighbouring countries like Nepal and Sri Lanka.
An Opposition MP in the Rajya Sabha on Monday asked why prices of petrol and diesel were lower in neighbouring countries such as Nepal and Sri Lanka. “Petrol is cheaper in Mother Sita’s land Nepal and Ravana’s land Lanka. When will the government reduce petrol, diesel prices in the land of Ram?” Samajwadi Party MP Vishambhar Prasad Nishad asked Union Minister for Petroleum