The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has fired a broadside at the BJP over a steep hike in electricity connection charges in Uttar Pradesh, pointing out the BJP’s scheme to make power expensive in Delhi through the Lieutenant Governor (LG).
Senior AAP leader and MLA Dilip Pandey warns that Delhiites now see AAP as a necessity for affordable electricity, water, and free Bus services for women, while BJP’s attempts to crush the AAP have failed.
Addressing a press conference, senior AAP leader and MLA Dilip Pandey said the entire country, including Delhi is watching how the BJP, which is burning the pockets of the common people of the country, is directly or indirectly robbing the pockets of the people. The recent testament of this is the increase in the price of new electricity connection by the BJP government of Uttar Pradesh.
The AAP MLA continued, “Where the BJP is unable to form the government with the mandate, sabotage, by horse trading of the MLAs, the BJP has started arresting the leaders of the ruling party. And the state where such arrests will be done in the most brutal way is Delhi. Where not once, but many times the people of Delhi slapped the BJP with their mandate and showed them the way out.”
Dilip Pandey said in Delhi, the first person to be arrested was Saryendar Jain, who gave the world famous Mohalla Clinic to Delhi and the country, as he did not break down. After this, AAP’s communication in-charge Vijay Nair, Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh, Arvind Kejriwal were arrested. The only motive was to finish the AAP by arresting all the first line leaders so that the facilities being provided to the people of Delhi by Arvind Kejriwal’s government could be stopped.
“When the conspiracies failed, we always looked with hope towards the Constitution and the court. Solutions emerged from these paths and now the people of Delhi are realizing that the people of AAP were right in saying that electricity, water, schools, hospitals, Mohalla clinics, pension for the elderly, their pilgrimages, free travel for women in buses, all these works of Delhiites are being stopped by the BJP because the BJP hates the people of Delhi. And one such conspiracy was exposed when the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh increased the charges for new electricity connections several times,” he added.
The AAP MLA shared that despite failing in Delhi, BJP is continuously hatching such conspiracies that by any means the free electricity of 200 units and half price of electricity up to 400 units should be stopped and by robbing the pockets of the people of Delhi, their peace and comfort should be disrupted. BJP is not able to see that it has troubled everyone, but how are the people of Delhi happy under the rule of Arvind Kejriwal?
Giving the statistics, Dilip Pandey said where 2 kWh used to cost around Rs. 1,365 in rural areas, now when the new charges will be implemented, that bill will become around Rs. 3,200, 125% increment; the price of 5 kWh domestic consumption which used to be Rs. 7,967 in urban and rural areas, will now increase to Rs. 17,500.
“The BJP was working on the same kind of plans in Delhi, and is still doing so, which we are constantly foiling. This is about Uttar Pradesh, now if we compare other states, then in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, if we take 400 units as the basis, then the bill for 400 units in Delhi is below Rs 1000, around Rs 950, but if you go to Gujarat, it is around Rs 9,000, Madhya Pradesh around Rs 4,000 and Maharashtra around Rs 4,000. So, compared to Delhi, the bills in BJP-ruled states are already 4 to 7 times higher.
Dilip Pandey said the BJP dances to the tune of electricity companies, it does not care about the pockets of the public. No matter how much electricity prices have to be increased, they have a setting with the electricity companies that without caring about the indecision of the public, what pressure will it put on the pockets of the public, they increase the electricity prices. And this is their constant effort in Delhi as well.
“We fear that after the failure of the previous attempts, the BJP will not hesitate to make such an attempt again through the LG. But we want to tell the BJP that you have tried earlier also to stop the work done by Arvind Kejriwal for the welfare of the people of Delhi. We have failed you earlier plots and in future also we will not let you succeed in your evil intentions,” affirmed the AAP MLA.