Twitter fumes over petrol price rise: 'Rs 3.38 hike, are you serious..!'

Too used to the declining fuel prices in the last two months, people were in for rude shock on Wednesday when the petrol price was hiked by a steep Rs 3.38 per litre and diesel by Rs 2.67 a litre. After the initial shock, the emotions soon turned into fury and what better place than Twitter to dispatch them. While a tweet demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi speak on the rising fuel price in the next edition of ‘Mann Ki Baat’, another even linked it with the submission of report by Justice SN Dhingra on questionable land deals by Robert Vadra, calling the report as a strategy to deviate attention from fuel prices. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal joined the tweet party as well. ““Rs 3.38” Thanks Modijee,” he tweeted. Perhaps, this could not have come at a better time for the Delhi Chief Minister, who sacked his minsiter Sandeep Kumar on Wednesday for a video featuring him in an alleged sex escapade. More than anything else what got a barrage of cursed tweets was acchhe din. For now, they seem a tad far away. Here are some of the reactions on Twitter on the fuel price rise:

#Petrol price hiked by Rs 3.38 per litre, diesel by Rs 2.67 per litre...
अाप सभी भक्तों को अच्छे दिन कि हार्दिक शुभकामना

— saumil Raval (@samraval1992) August 31, 2016

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thanks to twitter for letting me know that petrol prices are hiking by Rs 3.38, got all fuel tanks filled up in time.

— Gagan Thakur (@gagan_gt) August 31, 2016

आम आदमी को फिर लगा महंगाई का झटका, पेट्रोल 3.38 रुपये और डीजल 2.67 रुपये प्रति लीटर महंगा, मित्रों #AccheDin आ गए !

— Avanish Bhargava (@BhargavaAvanish) August 31, 2016

#Petrol Rs 3.38 n Diesel Rs 2.67 बढ़ गया है। बैल गाड़ी लेने का टाइम आ गया है

— Mehra (@RedDevilMehra) August 31, 2016

Petrol prices hiked by Rs 3.38 & diesel by Rs 2.67.Soon those waiting for Rs 15 Lakh from Modi will see it going out from their accounts 😢😢😢

— Sahil Prasad (@laxmi407) August 31, 2016

#AccheDin aa gaya#Petrol price hiked Rs 3.38😠😠😠

— അഭിജിത് (@nameis__abhi) August 31, 2016

Rs 3.38 hike, are you serious..! Biggest ever I remember..!

— Badhrinath.K (@Badhrinath_K) August 31, 2016

Petrol price hiked by Rs 3.38 per litre, diesel by Rs 2.67 per litre. Thanks Modiji for #AccheDin

— Fatima Shaikh (@Shaikh_Fatima89) August 31, 2016

Is that GST effect!!
Rs 3.38

— Biswatosh Sinha (@biswatosh) August 31, 2016

With inputs from PTI