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Onion prices bring some giggles with tears: Twitterati recalls Smriti Irani’s old onion tweet

Recalling a tweet on increasing onion prices by Union minister Smriti Irani which she posted in 2010, Twitterati took a jibe at the government posting some funny comments

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Even as high onion prices continued to make consumers teary-eyed, Twitter users on Wednesday had fun over an old tweet by BJP leader Smriti Irani.

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One user posted Irani's tweet from December 2010, when her party was in the opposition and wrote: "Old tweets are so funny." Irani's tweet on @smritiirani read: "Income Tax department is keeping a watch on all high-value transactions... don't buy onions :-)."

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#OnionPrices soon trended on Twitter, garnering 1,165 tweets. One user replied to @smritiirani: "How? Please tell us?"

Another twitter user ‘thanked’ Smriti Irani for giving such an ‘advisory’ nine years ago:

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Twitterati also posted memes on the issue, with one putting out a clipping of an old speech by Narendra Modi. One meme pertained to the use of an onion as company logo, with the caption: "After seeing onion prices, Apple want to change its logo in India".

One post read: "Each onion comes with a chip embedded in it... also reason why it's expensive."

One user took a jibe at the government: "Nobody cares nowadays even if one purchases MPs and MLAs. Thanks to Modi government".

One comment read: "Onion pakoda sellers beware!" One user said: "True. We have stopped buying onions and the fake stories... Have you???"

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