TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Congress Vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday attacked the Narendra Modi-led central government after the prices of cooking gas was again hiked, asking him to “vacate the ‘Sinhasan’ (post of the Prime Minister)”.Gandhi was referring to the price hike announced by the state-run oil firms on Wednesday.
The prices of the LPG cylinder’s went up by Rs 4.50, while the non-subsidised rates was hiked by a steeper Rs 93 per cylinder. The tweet is the latest in a series of salvos the Congress and the BJP have been firing at each other in the run-up to the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections.
On Saturday, BJP chief Amit Shah had slammed Rahul Gandhi for talking about farmers’ plight during campaigning for Gujarat polls, claiming that the Congress vice president was relying on a “chit” given by some NGO to speak about farmers’ issues.
