Ashish Shukla

Delhi landlords never disappoint us!🤣🤣

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🗣️: "Iran shouldn’t give India even water. Modi deceived Khamenei Saheb." Imagine the mindset, living in India, enjoying its freedoms, yet openly wishing harm on the same country😳

Barelvi Top Islamic cleric Asjad Raza Khan went to perform Umrah, and there he made loose statements at an unauthorised religious gathering amid regional tensions, and the Saudi authorities immediately detained him and put him in jail! Released after intervention by Indian MEA

GoI just finished paying off a ₹3.23 lakh crore “credit card bill” for petrol that was consumed more than 15 years ago. ➡️ What Exactly Were Oil Bonds? Think of it like this. If the true market price of petrol was ₹60 per litre but the government capped the retail price at ₹40 to keep voters happy, someone had to absorb the ₹20 gap. That burden initially fell on the Oil Marketing Companies or the OMCs. But if the government reimbursed them in cash, it would instantly explode the fiscal deficit. So instead, the government issued Oil Bonds, essentially an IOU. The promise was simple: “We won’t pay you today, but we’ll pay you 15–20 years later, along with around 8% annual interest.” In other words, the cost of artificially cheap fuel was pushed onto future taxpayers. ➡️When global crude prices surged touching nearly $96 per barrel in 2008, the government chose to flood the system with these IOUs rather than take the political hit of raising fuel prices. The numbers tell the story: Total principal issued: ₹1,53,423 crore Interest rates: Between 7% and 8.4% Maturity: Stretching deep into the 2020s These were expensive liabilities locked into the future. ➡️ You can’t permanently subsidise global commodity prices, you can only postpone the reckoning. By the time the last of these bonds mature in 2026, the Government of India will have paid ₹3,23,923 crore in total. Out of this, over ₹1.7 lakh crore is just interest. ➡️ By 2010, the arithmetic simply stopped working. The growing pile of high interest debt became unsustainable. The UPA eventually halted the issuance of new Oil Bonds and began deregulating petrol prices. A policy the NDA government had to aggressively continue to stop the bleeding. Meanwhile, taxpayers in the following decade quietly continued paying off the debt created years earlier. ✴️Cheap petrol in the past wasn’t truly cheap, the bill was simply post-dated to the future. That’s money that could have funded thousands of schools, hospitals, or major infrastructure projects.

A secular Hindu girl prepared iftar for her Muslim friend at her office.