Smriti Irani’s 2011 tweet on LPG price hike resurfaces, Congress hits out

Hours after the central government raised the price of commercial liquid petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders by ₹350.50 per unit and domestic LPG cylinders by ₹50 per unit.

Union minister Smriti Irani’s old tweet from 2011 resurfaced on social media in which she had slammed the then Congress government for increasing the LPG price by ₹50.

“50 rupee hike in LPG!!!!! N they call themselves Aam Aadmi ki Sarkar. What a shame!” her tweet read.

Soon, Congress shared an old picture of the union minister protesting against the price hike and questioned if she would “still take it to the streets”.

“When the price of an LPG cylinder was less than 400 rupees, Smriti Irani sat on the road with the cylinder. Today the price of a cylinder has crossed ₹1,100, will she do that today?,” the party questioned on its official Twitter handle.