Those bemoaning the rise in #PetrolPrice in India shd know that @nsitharaman can do nothing about it. You see, India's public finances are in a dire state. We now have the accounts to Dec 2020 - i.e. 9 months of FY 2020-21. Let's focus on the receipts. See this pic. 
Start with the last line:Total receipts. Pro-rata to the Budget estimates for 2020-21 of 22.46 Lakh crores (LC) at 9-month mark, the receipts are short by 5.6 lakh crores. That is a 34% shortfall. looking at the detail of Line 4. Non-debt capital receipts we get this information
Effectively, there has been ZERO disinvestments of the Gvt's stake in Public sector banks and financial institutions, a 77% shortfall in the disposal of Govt's equity holdings.
Now on the expenditure side, the data upto Dec 2020 is bang on target, i.e. as planned. The 2020-21 budget estimate was a spend of 30 LC over the year, and in the 3 quarters to December, the Govt spent exactly 75% of that. But that leaves a huge gap:
That gap is the fiscal deficit. As at end December it stood at 11.6 LC (against a Budget estimate in April 2020 of 7.9 LC) The taxes surcharges and levies on petrol and diesel raise nothing like these levels of revenues, but don't expect them to come down any time soon.
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