A day ahead Punjab party affairs’ in-charge Harish Rawat’s scheduled visit to diffuse the prevailing tension within the state party unit, Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday once again took his own party’s Government and his bête noire Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh to task — this time, over scrapping of power purchase agreements with private companies.

Sidhu, Punjab Pradesh congress committee (PPCC) president, on Monday took to Twitter to demand the extension of the one-day special session of Vidhan Sabha to bring a legislation to terminate PPAs for providing relief to consumers from the high power tariff.

Notably, the Congress-led Punjab Government has convened a day-long special session on September 3 to commemorate the 400th parkash purb (birth anniversary) of Guru Tegh Bahadur. At present, there is no other legislation listed for the session.  Sidhu posted a seven-minute video on Twitter seeking the extension of one-day Vidhan Sabha session to five to seven days to pass a legislation to terminate the PPAs saying that one-day session is not enough to take up issues concerning the public.

“PPA scrapping issue is a part of the 18-point agenda of the party high command,” he said, adding that he had raised it before the Chief Minister also.

Sidhu, in the video, maintained that just as the state assembly had passed the Punjab Termination of Agreements Act in 2004 on river water sharing with Haryana, the Punjab Vidhan Sabha should also pass the legislation to bring down the power tariff.