Here's One From Me, Says Rahul Gandhi, Show's Fuel Alarm to PM Modi
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted "challenge accepted" to Virat Kohli's post tagging him on a fitness campaign, Rahul Gandhi repurposed the thread to target the government on the rising fuel prices. The Congress president also warned of a nationwide agitation by his party if fuel prices were not reduced.
"Dear PM, Glad to see you accept the @imVkohli fitness challenge. Here's one from me: Reduce Fuel prices or the Congress will do a nationwide agitation and force you to do so. I look forward to your response.#FuelChallenge," he tweeted.
Petrol prices shot up for the 11th straight day today, with the cost of petrol breaching R
s.
85 in Mumbai. The price of the fuel is already at an all-time high in Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai. In Delhi and Chennai, petrol was sold for R
s.
77.47 and R
s.
80.42 per litre. Petrol in Kolkata costs more than R
s.
80 a litre, and is at its highest in four years.
Congress communications in-charge Randeep Surjewala also took a dig at Modi for remaining "silent" on the rising fuel prices, and posed a 'challenge' to him to utilise the R
s.
10 lakh crore "looted" through central excise on petrol and diesel, for helping reduce the fuel prices and restore the "economic fitness" of the common man.
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