Rahul Gandhi slams PM Narendra Modi over rise in fuel prices

Congress leader and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi, mocking his Mann ki Baat, and said PM Modi’s ‘Roz Subah ki Baat’ includes increasing the price of fuel.

Listing as many as 5 points, including hiking the price of petrol and diesel, Rahul Gandhi said these are PM Modi’s daily to-do list.

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On Wednesday, the rates of petrol and diesel rose by another 80 paise per litre, making it the 8th hike in nine days.

With the fresh hike, petrol in Delhi now costs Rs 101.01 per litre, while diesel is selling at Rs 92.27 per litre.

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In Mumbai, the petrol and diesel prices have gone up by 84 paise and 85 paise per litre, respectively, thus costing Rs 115.88 and Rs 100.10 per litre.

In Chennai, the price of petrol is Rs 106.69 (increased by 75 paise) a litre and diesel is Rs 96.76 (increased by 76 paise) per litre.

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In Kolkata, the price of petrol is Rs 110.52 a litre (increased by 84 paise) and diesel is Rs 95.42 per litre (increased by 80 paise).

Rahul Gandhi, in a tweet said that PM Modi’s to-do list includes how to stop people from discussing expenses, how to show hollow dreams of employment to the youth, which government companies to sell and how to bring more miseries to the farmers.

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Congress has been raising the issue of petrol, diesel price hikes consistently and will launch a nationwide protest campaign starting March 31. 

Of the three-phase protest campaign, the first will be held on March 31, the second between April 2 and April 4 and the third on April 7– at various organisational levels.

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On Tuesday, Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the accusation of the opposition that the war in Ukraine had been raging for a long time and fuel prices are being raised now is absolutely untrue.