Fourteen curbs for us.

"Speaking at an event in Secunderabad,""Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday urged citizens to revive work-from-home practices and avoid non-essential foreign travels for at least a year, citing growing concern over the economic impact of the ongoing West Asia conflict." ET. Speaking in Hyderabad next, he enumerated 14 rules to be followed by citizens, including no foreign travel, use of public transport, reduce use of edible oil, not to buy gold and buy locally manufactured shoes, bags and accessories. ET. Dear Leader is known to offer advice on every subject, but surely being the foremost citizen of the nation he should lead by example. PM was in Secunderabad "inaugurating and laying the foundation stone for projects worth around Rs 94 billion in Telangana." ET. This was a most  non-essential travel and could have been delegated to some local politician with considerable saving in aviation fuel. Mr Modi's office is in Delhi (wikipedia), but his itinerary shows that he was not in his office almost throughout April and has already visited Bihar and West Bengal in May (PM India.gov.in). In addition, he made 11 foreign trips in 2025 and has already been out of India twice this year (pmindia.gov.in) and is to shortly visit the United Arab Emirates on his way to the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Italy (HT). He could not tour Croatia, Norway and the Netherlands last year because of the Pahalgam attack on 22 April in which terrorists shot 26 civilians to death  (wikipedia). Most inconsiderate of the terrorists. In response, the Congress Party said that 'it was 'shameless, reckless and downright immoral' for the Prime Minister to ask people to face inconvenience instead of putting contingency measures in place to keep the economy insulated from the global crisis." India Today. And also to sit in his office for which he was elected. The Congress is entitled to ask because it was in office when the price of oil spiked to $80 a barrel in October 2007, rose to over $106 in April 2008 and then to $128 in July. The price fell in December 2008 but jumped again to over $80 per barrel in December 2010 and stayed above $90 barrel, occasionally reaching above $100, till August 2014. Since then it has stayed below $60 a barrel, briefly spiking in 2022 probably because of Covid. eia.gov. But, during the period the Congress was in power, the retail price of petrol stayed at reasonable levels, briefly reaching above Rs 70 per liter in 2013 and 2014. However, we have been paying over Rs 80 per liter since 2020 and over Rs 95 per liter since 2021. cleartax.in. Because of extortionate taxes levied by this government. We, the people, have been looted of over Rs 40 trillion through taxes on petrol since 2014-15 as government figures show. ppac.gove.in. Shameless and immoral. Power and tourism at any cost.