Letter to BS: Both Baba Ramdev and Arun Jaitley are silent on fuel prices

If the government reduces excise duties, fuel rates will become cheaper but the Narendra Modi government remains unmoved and both Ramdev and Jaitley are silent on this issue

In the run up to the Lok Sabha election in 2014, Baba Ramdev regularly castigated the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for petrol prices being above Rs 70 per litre. In television interviews, he would ask people which government would they vote for — the UPA that gave petrol at Rs 70, or to the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) that promised to cut excise duties and offer it at Rs 35. On his part, Arun Jaitley, as Leader of the Opposition, used to say that petrol prices are rising due to the inefficiencies of the state-run oil companies. 

But now, as