While holding placards, shouting slogans and staging sit-in demonstrations are the most common ways of protesting, Opposition parties on occasion adopt more unique methods of getting their message across. Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, speaking in the Lok Sabha on Monday, bit into a raw brinjal to highlight high gas prices. She claimed that cooking gas is so expensive that one might be forced to consume raw vegetables. “The prices of LPG cylinder have been raised four times in the last few months. Does the government want us to eat raw vegetables?” she asked. From holding mock parliaments to...