One paisa cut in petrol price: Not a suitable response to #FuelChallenge, Rahul Gandhi tells PM Modi

Hours after petrol and diesel prices were slashed by one paisa on Wednesday, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi told Prime Minister Narendra Modi it was “not a suitable response to the #FuelChallenge” that he had thrown at the PM. He also wondered if it was a prank, then it was childish and in poor taste. In a tweet addressed to Prime Minister Modi, Gandhi said: “Dear PM, You’ve cut the price of Petrol and Diesel today by 1 paisa. ONE paisa!?? If this is your idea of a prank, it’s childish and in poor taste. P.S. A ONE paisa cut is not a suitable response to the #FuelChallenge I threw you last week.” Earlier, Gandhi had dared Modi to either cut down fuel prices or be ready to face a nationwide agitation by the party. While the petrol price was cut by 60 paise this morning, the cut was soon revised to just 1 paisa a litre each. “The reduction was supposed to be 1 paisa but due to a clerical error the price prevalent on May 25 was communicated as today’s price,” a senior official of Indian Oil Corp (IOC), the nation’s largest fuel retailer, said in a statement. The current price of petrol is at Rs 78.42/litre in Delhi and Rs 86.23/litre in Mumbai while diesel stood at Rs 69.30/litre in Delhi and Rs 73.78/litre in Mumbai. The cut comes after 16 consecutive price increases since May 14 when fuel retailers ended the pre-Karnataka poll hiatus to pass on a spike in global oil rates.