'These are serious directives,' says Opp'n on PM Modi's appeals on WFH, gold purchase, fuel

Opposition leaders reacted after PM Narendra Modi urged citizens to avoid gold purchase for a year, conserve fuel and gas and prioritise working from home. "These are very serious 'directives'...Government must...take the nation into confidence," Congress MP Karti Chidambaram said. "Policy failure to handle the ongoing Middle East conflict," Shiv Sena-UBT leader Priyanka Charturvedi said.