Yoga with Baba Ramdev: Shashi Tharoor's swipe at Centre over fuel price hike

Fuel prices were revised upwards for a ninth consecutive day today, which has invited rebukes from Opposition parties

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor took a jibe at the Centre as fuel prices soared, by tweeting a cartoon of Baba Ramdev doing yoga.

In the cartoon, Baba Ramdev is shown doing a headstand pose at a petrol station in front of a placard reading “Litre Rs 90”. With the image, Tharoor wrote, “If you took yoga lessons from Baba Ramdev, you too could see petrol prices at 06 rupees a litre!”

The Thiruvananthapuram MP translated the Malayalam caption of the cartoon to English for his followers.

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Petrol and diesel prices touched new highs on Wednesday after fuel rates were hiked for the ninth consecutive day. In Delhi, petrol and diesel prices were increased by 25 paise each. Petrol is priced at Rs 89.54 per litre, while diesel at Rs 79.95 per litre in the national capital.

Congress leaders claimed that the Modi government had collected over Rs 20 lakh crore by imposing additional excise duty on petrol and diesel over the past six years and eight months.

Last week, a Congress activist from Odisha had dressed up as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and gone around Bhubaneswar asking if fuel prices had decreased.