"Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday launched a scathing attack against Rahul Gandhi and the Congress Party over farmers' protest and 'hum do humare do' remark in the ongoing Budget session at the parliament." In a personal attack on Gandhi's mother and sister she said, "Hum 2 hamare 2 we're two people taking care of party (meaning Sonia and Rahul Gandhi) & a there are two other people who I've to take care, daughter and damad (meaning Priyanka Gandhi and her husband Robert Vadra) will take care of that." Her vituperation was provoked by a speech by Rahul Gandhi in which he accused the Modi government of being run by 2 people (meaning Modi and Amit Shah) for the benefit of 2 people (meaning Guatam Adani and Mukesh Ambani). Gandhi used the old family planning slogan 'hum do, humare do' which means 'we are two, and we will have no more than two children'. Clearly, she is her master's voice. Because, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been blaming the Nehru-Gandhi family for all the ills of the nation and continues to do so even though he has been in charge with absolute majority in parliament since 2014. No blame attaches to him even though everyone knows he is a master of 'jumla'. He has no qualms about selecting children of politicians as candidates for elections to the Lok Sabha or state assemblies. Earlier, "Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday tore into Congress saying the party should introspect whether it is fit to demand an account from the Modi government." "Peace in Kashmir is a big thing. I don't want to recall the days of unrest. Such days won't be there again as it's our Govt now," he said. We sure hope for peace for Kashmir and its people but it was achieved through curfew, a lockdown of the state, mass arrests and complete disruption of telephone and internet connections. The coronavirus must have helped enormously. Since Jammu and Kashmir is no longer a state, local elections to District Development Councils (DDC) were held in which an alliance of 7 parties, the Gupkar alliance which has resolved to bring back Articles 370 and 35A, abrogated by Modi in 2019, won 110 seats compared to 74 for the BJP, which was the largest single party with the largest vote share. "Facing flak from opposition parties over rising fuel prices, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday blamed the artificial price mechanism created by the Oil producing nations for spiralling retail prices of petrol and diesel which have touched an all time high." Which is blatantly untrue. The price of Brent crude today is $62.43 and the OPEC basket is at $60.54 per barrel. Price of crude oil averaged over $90 per barrel from 2011 to 2014, when Modi won his first term, and dropped sharply thereafter. The average price of petrol across the US on 8 February was around $2,5 per US gallon. One US gallon equals 3.785 liters and today's exchange rate is 1 USD equals Rs 72.57 Which means that petrol is selling at about Rs 48 per liter, including tax, in the US, while we in India are hemorrhaging Rs 90 per liter. Extortion. You have to tear into others to hide your own misdeeds. For how long?
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