Claiming that the reduction of  fixed power charges as a mere election gimmick in the run up to the upcoming  Delhi Asssembly election, Delhi Congress has demanded a total roll back of the fixed charges.

Alleging the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led Delhi Government for  doing a “piecemeal job”, Congress working presidents of  Delhi unit Haroon Yusuf, Devender Yadav and Rajesh Lilothia demanded a total roll back of the fixed charges.

They also said that the move is nothing but an attempt to fool the people of Delhi after looting them in the name of fixed charges and pension fund for the past one and a half years. 

Kejriwal Government has reduced the fixed charges tariff is itself evidence that it is looting the people in the past one and a half years by hiking the fixed charges.

Yusuf said that the reduction in the power tariff announced by the Kejriwal Government should be with retrospective effect when the fixed charges were increased by six times last year. “The AAP Government had put an unnecessary burden on the citizens of Delhi by increasing the fixed charges and surcharge in power bills to benefit the private discoms,” they said.

The party also demanded that the hiked power charges should be rolled back and the crores of rupees collected on this head should either be returned to the electricity consumers or adjusted in the power bills for the next six months.

A party delegation led by late DPCC president Sheila Dikshit had met Kejriwal at his residence on June 8 this year and submitted a memorandum, demanding that the power companies, who have collected Rs 7401 crores from the people on fixed charges and pension fund, should either adjust the money against the bills or returned it to the people.