The Price of Existence: How Post-Election Fuel Hikes Are Breaking India's Common Man: A Special Report on the Human Cost Behind Every Fuel Price Revision

May 27, 26 Rahul Vyas

As election euphoria fades and winning politicians settle comfortably into the corridors of power, millions of ordinary Indians are bracing themselves for something far less celebratory — the inevitable rise in fuel prices that follows every general election with the quiet certainty of a landlord arriving on rent day. It has happened again. And almost nobody is surprised. The Ritual Nobody Dares Name: In March 2024, weeks before the Lok Sabha polling began, the BJP government announced a ₹2 per litre reduction in petrol and diesel prices. It was projected as consumer relief. It was