Following the promise of 200 units of free electricity by the Bharatiya Janata Party in its election manifesto to the voters of West Bengal, a similar demand has been raised by the power consumers of Uttar Pradesh.  
The UP Power Consumer Forum has demanded the state government to implement this first in UP as the BJP is in power in the state for the last four years.
The BJP, in its election Sankalp Patra has also offered that no fixed charges will be levied on the new industrial units for six months and power tariff for the small and medium industries will be Rs 2 per unit for five years.
The UP Power Consumer Forum on Monday submitted a memorandum to Energy Minister Shrikant Sharma in which it has said this should be implemented in UP first as the BJP is in power in the state.
President of UP Power Consumer Forum, Avadesh Verma, said the concession in power tariff should be implemented in UP as the power distribution companies already owe Rs 19,535 crore to the power consumers.
Verma said to compensate the electricity consumers, the power consumer forum had been demanding gradual reduction of power tariff by 8 per cent for three years or 25 per cent in one year.
He said so far the UP Power Corporation Limited had given no relief to the electricity consumers and now the energy minister was duty bound to give the much needed relief to three crore electricity consumers.
He said there had been no hike in power tariff in West Bengal since 2017-18 while the power tariff  had been increased by as much as 27 per cent in UP ever since the BJP came to power in the state in March 2017. He said in UP, urban electricity consumers were paying at the rate of Rs 5.50 per unit for 150 units consumption, Rs 6 per unit for consumption up to 300 units and Rs 7 per unit for consumption above 500 units.
He said besides the exorbitant power tariff, the consumers were also paying Rs 110 per kilowatt as fixed charges.