Falling rupee, rising onion prices

Bharatiya Janata Party leaders have found themselves in a tricky situation, courtesy a falling rupee and climbing onion prices. Some avid followers on Twitter have dug up old tweets of ruling party members that criticised the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government for not controlling the gyrations of these two. In December 2010, Smriti Irani had tweeted: "Income tax dept is keeping a watch on all high value transactions. Don't buy onions." Narendra Modi, then chief minister of Gujarat, had tweeted in October 2013: "Onions are produced mostly in Congress-ruled states, then why is its price rising? Why don't they answer?" Earlier in the same year in July, Modi tweeted: "Rupee is not losing strength because its size has changed. It is because those sitting in Delhi are busy in corruption."