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Delhi BJP to take agitation over power tariff to the common man

Staff Reporter

Plans to distribute pamphlets at prominent weekly markets

POWER POLITICS: BJP leaders Sahib Singh Verma and Harsh Vardhan sitting on a dharna against power tariff hike, in New Delhi on Tuesday. Photo: V. Sudershan

NEW DELHI: Taking the fight against the recent power tariff increases to the streets and to apprise the common man of the Delhi Government's "anti-people polices", the Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party has decided to make its movement more forceful.

Under this programme, pamphlets containing facts about "connivance" between the Delhi Government and the private power distribution companies would be distributed at all prominent weekly markets, places of worship, sites of festivals, crowded crossings and localities.

It has also been decided that the BJP Kisan Morcha and Unauthorised Colony Cell would organise a "Mahapanchayat" and signal the launch of an agitation to expose the nexus between the power companies and the Delhi Government. Thanking the office-bearers of the 25 Residents' Welfare Associations who have decided against paying the increased power tariffs and allowing installation of fast-running electronic meters on their premises, the Delhi BJP president, Harsh Vardhan, said another 100 RWAs have now joined hands with them. "The BJP appeals to the people of Delhi not to pay the third increase in the power tariff," he added.

Demanding a rollback of the increased tariffs, Dr. Harsh Vardhan said the party had decided to undertake intensive public awareness programme towards a final battle against the Delhi Government and power companies.

The party workers would fan out to various parts of the Capital and distribute pamphlets and handbills to make the common man aware that the power companies at the behest of the Delhi Government were fleecing them. He said it was unfortunate that when lakhs of consumers were getting inflated bills due to fast-running metres, the Delhi Government had given a clean chit to the power companies. It is only after the BJP exposed the claims of the Delhi Government and the RWAs also decided to come out into the open that the Delhi Government was forced to take a defensive stand and Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit issued a direction to the power companies asking them to pull up their socks, he added.

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