Congress MP Shashi Tharoor took on the Centre over the rising fuel prices with a cartoon.
"If you took yoga lessons from Baba Ramdev, you too could see petrol prices at 06 rupees a litre!" the Thiruvananthapuram MP tweeted, along with a cartoon of Ramdev performing Shirshasana.
If you took yoga lessons from BabaRamdev, you too could see petrol prices at 06 rupees a litre! pic.twitter.com/zatuS6t6cs
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) February 16, 2021
The cartoon shows the yoga guru looking at a placard which has 'Litre ₹ 90', but the pose of yoga guru makes it look '06'.
In eight straight days, prices have gone up by Rs 2.34 per litre for petrol and Rs 2.57 for diesel. Rajasthan, which levies the highest VAT on fuel in the country, had the highest petrol and diesel prices. Petrol price touched Rs 99.87 per litre in Rajasthan, while in Delhi, petrol now comes for Rs 89.29.
In Mumbai, petrol price rose to Rs 95.75 a litre and diesel was priced at Rs 86.72.
The relentless hike in prices has been criticised by the opposition parties, including the Congress that has demanded an immediate cut in taxes to ease the burden on the common man.
Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, last week, had told Parliament that the government is not considering a reduction in excise duty to cool rates from their record highs.
Retail petrol rates have risen by Rs 19.7 per litre since mid-March 2020 after the government raised taxes by a record margin to mop up gains arising from fall in international oil prices. Diesel rates have gone up by Rs 17.41.
—With PTI inputs
