Govt playing cruel joke on public: Rahul Gandhi on fuel price hike

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday hit out at the Centre over rising prices of petrol and diesel and said the government is playing a “cruel joke” on the public.

Petrol and diesel prices on Thursday were hiked by 35 paise per litre each, the second consecutive day of increase that took pump rates across the country to record high levels.

Slamming the government, Gandhi tweeted, “GOI is playing a cruel joke on our public.”

He used the hashtag ‘TaxExtortion’ and shared a social media post which said that a new word — Fillionaire (One who cannot afford a full tank in India) — has been coined, courtesy “Modi government’s fuel loot”.