“Yoga Lessons From Baba Ramdev”: Shashi Tharoor’s Reply To Gas Value Hike

New Delhi:

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor tweeted a cartoon of yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Tuesday night to take a swipe on the centre over hovering petrol and diesel costs.

The cartoon confirmed Baba Ramdev in a headstand pose at a gas station, whereas taking a look at a placard with the textual content “Litre Rs 90” written on it. The picture additionally comprises a caption in Malayalam, which Mr Tharoor translated and posted together with his tweet.

“If you took yoga lessons from Baba Ramdev, you too could see petrol prices at 06 rupees a litre!” Mr Tharoor – who’s the Lok Sabha MP for Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram – wrote.

In the event you took yoga classes from BabaRamdev, you too might see petrol costs at 06 rupees a litre! pic.twitter.com/zatuS6t6cs

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) February 16, 2021

Petrol and diesel prices touched fresh all-time highs throughout the 4 metros at present, after oil advertising and marketing firms elevated charges for an eighth straight day – this time by round 30 paise.

Petrol now prices between Rs 89.29 (Delhi) and Rs 95.75 (Mumbai) in metro cities.

Diesel prices between Rs 79.70 (Delhi) and Rs 86.72 (Mumbai).

In Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal, premium petrol touched Rs 100 per litre on February 14.

Gas costs have recorded an upswing throughout India since January 6, after staying unchanged for nearly a month. The rise comes amid a rally in international crude oil costs as nations perform vaccination drives, and markets and companies hope for a measure of pre-Covid normalcy.

Union Minister for Petroleum Dharmendra Pradhan final week mentioned that petrol and diesel costs have been governed by an international price mechanism, and identified that “for almost 250 (of the past 300 days) the centre had not increased or decreased prices”.

Opposition leaders like Mr Tharoor nonetheless, haven’t been swayed.

On Monday a Congress chief in Odisha, dressed like Prime Minister Narendra Modi, went round Bhubaneswar in a bullock cart asking if petrol prices had decreased.

ଉମରକୋଟରେ ବନ୍ଦ ପାଳନ କରାଗଲା,ଶଗଡ ଗାଡିରେ ଉପରେ ଠିଆ ହୋଇ ପ୍ରଧାନମନ୍ତ୍ରୀ ନରେନ୍ଦ୍ର ମୋଦିଙ୍କ ବେଶରେ ସହର ପରିକ୍ରମା କଲେ କଂଗ୍ରେସ କର୍ମୀ। #OdishaBandhpic.twitter.com/48YSdpPRXx

— Odisha Congress (@INCOdisha) February 15, 2021

Final week Samajwadi Celebration MP Vishambhar Prasad Nishad quipped within the Rajya Sabha: “Petrol is cheaper in Mother Sita’s land Nepal and Ravana’s land Lanka (however not in) the land of Ram.”

Confronted with protests over the value hikes, two states have minimize costs – Assam and Meghalaya.

Assam, the place the BJP is bidding for re-election in just a few weeks, cut prices by Rs 5 per litre final week. Meghalaya, which earlier minimize costs by Rs 2 per litre, introduced cuts of Rs 5.4 per litre Tuesday evening.

Gas costs differ from state to state relying on the incidence of native gross sales tax or VAT.

Petrol and diesel hikes have been accompanied by a rise in that of non-subsidised LPG cylinders, for which the Congress on Monday lashed out at “Narendra Modi’s ruthless and immoral government”. This was after the centre hiked the price of LPG cylinders in Delhi – a non-subsidised cylinder will now value ₹ 769.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi criticised that hike, accusing the Modi authorities of “looting from the public”. He tweeted: “Janta se loot, sirf ‘doh’ ka vikaas” and tore into Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s marketing campaign ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikaas‘ – his mantra for inclusive improvement.