India's ruling party BJP is currently facing a lot of flak for the fuel price hike and while the common man is criticising the move, celebrities are keeping their mouth shut on the issue. Film industry's blue-eyed boy, Akshay Kumar, who has been making 'conscience decisions' lately regarding his film choices, wasn't always that careful.

For instance, the actor tweeted about the fuel price hike back in 2012, criticising the move. However, his silence over the same issue now has drawn attention and to balance it out the actor decided to delete his tweet from 5 years back. Now we wonder what is making him keep his fingers away from the keypad this time?

Couldn't even get to my house at nite for all of Mumbai was queuing up for #petrol before the prices rocketed again. — Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) May 16, 2011

When I saw Rs. 62 trending, I thought it must be either the reduced petrol price or some new scam of Rs. 62 crores but… http://t.co/tJBnnZwG — Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) July 15, 2012

The tweet that the actor deleted read, "Guys, I think it’s time to clean up your bicycles and hit the road! As per sources, expecting another petrol price hike."

Wonder why .@akshaykumar deleted this tweet. Maybe he doesn't have the STREANH to face public with increasing #petrolpricehike ? pic.twitter.com/wkAZYsYj5T — Mr Certitude (@Swapzz) May 21, 2018

Interestingly, Akshay wasn't the only one who took to Twitter to tweet out his sheer frustration in 2012, lots of other celebrities, namely Anupam Kher, Amitabh Bachchan, Vivek Agnihotri and others, had also tweeted one thing or the other related to the price-hike under the UPA government.

The price of petrol and diesel in the Modi government is skyrocketing, inflation is at its peak level,Before 2014, Amitabh, Ashok Pandit, Vivek Agnihotri, Akshay Kumar and Anupam Kher, who oppose rising prices of petrol and diesel, why silent? #FuelLootBySuitBoot @IYC pic.twitter.com/aL6CyLmvYz — संजीव शर्मा (@SanjeevINC) May 22, 2018

Now, all these celebrities, who have shown their admiration for the current ruling party, are left with nothing but silence as history repeats itself for the common man.

After a 19-day pre-Karnataka poll hiatus, the price of petrol was hiked recently by 17 paise a litre and diesel by 21 paise as PSU oil firms began passing on the spike witnessed in international rates to consumers. In Delhi, the price of petrol was hiked to Rs 74.80 per litre from Rs 74.63 while the rate of diesel was increased to Rs 66.14 a litre from Rs 65.93, according to a price notification issued by state-owned oil marketing companies.

With this, diesel prices have touched a record high while petrol is at a 56-month peak.