Lucknow: If petrol price keeps rising by 80 paise a day, it would be costing ₹ 275 a litre by November or December assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said on Saturday.
Mr Yadav made the remark, terming his calculation of probable future prices of petrol as “the mathematics of inflation under the BJP rule”.
Mr Yadav made his remarks in a tweet in Hindi without actually naming the states of Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh where the assembly elections are likely to be held in November or December this year.
“People are saying if the petrol price keeps rising by 80 paise a day or ₹ 24 a month at its present rate, it would rise by ₹ 175 in the next seven months by November or December when next elections are likely,” Mr Yadav said in his tweet.
“It implies that the petrol selling at ₹ 100 a litre now would be costing ₹ 275 a litre then,” he said.
“This is the mathematics of inflation under the BJP rule,” he added.
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