Smriti Irani’s 2011 tweet on LPG price hike resurfaces, Congress hits out
Hours after the primary authorities raised the fee of industrial liquid petroleum fueloline (LPG) cylinders by ₹350.50 in keeping with unit and home LPG cylinders by ₹50 in keeping with unit, union minister Smriti Irani`s vintage tweet from 2011 resurfaced on social media wherein she had slammed the then Congress authorities for growing the LPG fee by ₹50. “50 rupee hike in LPG!!!!! N they name themselves Aam Aadmi ki Sarkar. What a shame!” her tweet read.
Soon, Congress shared an vintage photo of the union minister protesting towards the fee hike and wondered if she would “nevertheless take it to the streets”. “When the fee of an LPG cylinder became much less than four hundred rupees, Smriti Irani sat on the street with the cylinder. Today the fee of a cylinder has crossed ₹1,100, will she do this today?,” the birthday birthday celebration wondered on its reliable Twitter handle.
Youth Congress leader Shrinivas BV additionally shared an vintage video of the minister from a press convention in 2011 whilst the BJP became in opposition. The video has a textual content band that says: ”Gas cylinder fee is now over 1100, in which is Cylinderella?” On Wednesday morning, petroleum and oil advertising groups raised the costs of LPG cylinders with instant effect. The non-subsidised LPG fee became hiked to ₹1,103 in keeping with 14.2-kg cylinder– the primary growth on account that July 2022.
Meanwhile, in Delhi, industrial LPG cylinders will now cost ₹2,119.50 in keeping with unit a 19.8% hike from ₹1,769 in advance and the fee of home LPG cylinders will be ₹1,103 in keeping with unit, a 4.7% growth from ₹1,057. Notably, the home fueloline cylinder`s fee adjustments from kingdom to kingdom primarily based totally on kingdom taxes.
