What’s a crisis without humour? ADVERTISEMENTSocial media users have responded in particular to the LPG crisis by drawing references from politics, culture, history and Bollywood to channel their inner-comedian aura. Not just films, the country's top leaders, including PM Modi and Nirmala Sitharaman, became a subject of the classic tongue-in-cheek humour. In 2018, the prime minister had shared an anecdote during a World Biofuel Day event about a teaseller who apparently used “gas” from a nearby “gutter” as fuel for his stove. Irani was tagged as 'Lapataa Ladies' as users pointed out the contrast between her outrage during the LPG crisis in the UPA era – when she was in the Opposition – and now.

Source: The Telegraph March 13, 2026 12:51 UTC