” Please don’t lie said “: Union Minister Smriti Irani met face-to-face with acting Congress of Women’s wing chief Netta D’Souza on a Delhi-Guwahati flight. The Iranian Union Minister tried to avoid Netta, saying he was ‘attacked.’
Video of Union Minister Smriti Irani against Mahila Congress President Netta D’Souza over inflation has spread on social media.
The two were boarding a flight to Guwahati and a connection was made as the plane arrived and passengers began to disembark.
D’Souza asked the Union Minister about the rise in LPG prices, which Irani said the Center was helping the poor with various social programs.
“The government is giving the people of the country free shares, free policies for 1.83 billion people,” Irani was heard saying in a 1:11-minute video.
While the president of the Mahila Congress continued to harass the minister with his questions, Smriti Irani finally calmed down, saying D’Souza was blocking other passengers.
Asked about the shortage of cooking gas and gas-free stoves, the minister said, “Please do not lie”.
Congress vs Center
Congress is opposed to the ruling BJP, which has staged nationwide protests against the Center over rising prices for petrol, diesel, cooking gas, fertilizers and essential medicines.
Protest rallies are being held across the country, at the country’s headquarters, under committees of the Congress of Pradesh.
The party had previously stated that the Center was not satisfied with the receipt of approximately Rs 26 lakh crore for unprecedented tax rates, and that the recent tax evasion would place an additional Rs 1.56 lakh crore on the people of India.
The ANC also accused the government of running away from talks on inflation during a parliamentary session.
New DelHI: Union Minister Smriti Irani was caught unawares today on a Delhi-Guwahati flight when asked about rising petrol prices. The interrogator was Netta D’Souza, the acting head of the women’s wing of Congress.
Ms D’Souza later posted a video on twitter in which the minister was seen recording the incident on his cellphone.
The excerpts from his tweet, in which the minister was marked, read, “Faced Modi Minister @smritiirani ji, enroute to Guwahati. to the plight of the common people! ”
Ms Irani initially said the Congress leader was “blocking the way”. Asked about the shortage of cooking gas and “fuel-free stoves”, the minister was heard saying “please don’t lie”.
Eventually he is heard saying “caught”.
The price of petrol has been increased 14 times in 16 days, with an increase of Rs 10 a liter. There have been no mountaineering in the last two days.
In Delhi a liter of petrol now sells for Rs 105.41 and diesel for Rs 96.67 a litre .
In Mumbai – where petrol prices are the highest at four meters – petrol sells for Rs 120.51 a liter and diesel sells for Rs 104.77 a liter.
Fuel prices have been stagnant for more than four months despite rising crude oil prices. Opposition parties have stated they will not run in the by-elections, but will run for office in BJP.
Citing inflation as a result of the Russia-Ukraine war, Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said India’s rise was only 5 percent compared to countries such as the US, UK, Canada, Germany and Sri Lanka, where prices were higher. increased by 50 percent.
Rising fuel prices, he added, were much lower in India after the war.
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