Senior Delhi BJP leaders and workers on Monday protested at 14 major offices of AAP supported power discoms in different parts of the city against the Power Purchase Agreement Charge (PPAC), Pension Surcharge, Meter Charge and Load Surcharge which are making the electricity bills hefty.

State BJP President Virendra Sachdeva accused the AAP government of looting the Delhiites and said “In the name of electricity surcharge, the Arvind Kejriwal government has continuously cheated the people of Delhi.” The protestors raised slogans of ‘Kejriwal Delhiwalo ko lootna band karo’ and ‘PPAC and pension surcharge wapis lo’ while carrying posters which had written ‘Delhi sarkar ka janta se jhoot aur bijli company ki loot’

He alleged that the Delhi government is in connivance with power companies and has been looting Delhi for the last 10 years. “Every consumer who is paying electricity bill, more than 50 per cent of the money is going into the pockets of Arvind Kejriwal and power companies in the name of surcharges,” he claimed.

Sachdeva accused kejriwal of imposing the PPAC on the people of Delhi and said, “At the behest of Kejriwal government, the electricity companies are collecting pensions of their retired employees from the consumers of Delhi in the name of pension trust, whereas giving pension is the job of the electricity company and not the people of Delhi.” He added that as long as the loot will continue so will the protest of  BJP.

Delhi BJP MLAs Om Prakash Sharma, Abhay Verma and Anil Bajpai said that while we are participating in the Jan Sangharsh started by the state BJP against the rigging of electricity bills, we will also raise this issue of loot of the public in the Monsoon Session of Delhi Vidhan Sabha.

South Delhi BJP MP Ramveer Singh Bidhuri addressed the protesting workers and said, “Arvind Kejriwal came to power with the promise of auditing the accounts of power companies but today the Delhi government and power companies are seen to be equal partners in looting the electricity bills of the public.”

West Delhi BJP MP Kamaljeet Sehrawat addressed the protest organised outside KV Grid Sub Station at Najafgarh and said, “Arvind Kejriwal has ruled Delhi for the last 10 years by just telling lies and during this time he has looted the pockets of the people of Delhi in the name of electricity bills.”

New Delhi MP Bansuri Swaraj addressed the protest led by District President Sunil Kakkar outside 33 KV Substation building at Karol Bagh and alleged that in the last few years a worrying partnership is visible between the Kejriwal Government and private Discoms.