The AAP and the BJP are sparred over the power outages in the national capital. Launching a scathing attack on the BJP-led Delhi government; AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday accused the ruling party of plunging the city back into an era of blackouts. The former chief minister said that the situation could worsen as temperatures rise in the coming weeks. Hitting back, South Delhi MP Ramvir Singh Bidhuri also slammed the AAP for spreading lie over the power outages.
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva also lambasted the AAP saying there is uninterrupted 24-hour power supply in Delhi, but Aam Aadmi Party leaders, frustrated by their loss in the Delhi Assembly elections, are trying to create a political narrative suggesting that there are massive power cuts happening in the city. Sachdeva said it is unfortunate that leaders like Kejriwal, Atishi Marlena and Saurabh Bharadwaj are attempting to mislead Delhiites, as if power discoms are unable to supply electricity. But they will not succeed in their misleading attempts. “The people of Delhi live in the city and can clearly see for themselves that there are no power cuts happening anywhere. Soon people from across Delhi will come forward from every colony to expose the lies and misleading politics being spread by Arvind Kejriwal regarding power supply,” he added.
South Delhi MP Ramvir Singh Bidhuri also slammed the AAP for spreading lie over the power outages.
In a social media post, Kejriwal said on X, “On April 9, the peak demand in Delhi was 5,462 MW. Due to this, there was no electricity for several hours in many places in Delhi last night. Last year, the peak demand reached about 8,500 MW. Still, there was no power outage anywhere in Delhi during our government”.
“What will happen in the coming weeks when the heat in Delhi increases and the demand for electricity also increases?” he asked and called the current power crisis a result of the BJP’s “misgovernance”. “In the last ten years, we have worked hard to fix Delhi’s electricity system. It is said that it takes years to fix anything but it can be damaged in just two days,” he added.
The AAP leaders followed suit, accusing the BJP of mismanagement and claiming that the capital’s power infrastructure, carefully built over a decade, was being undone in a matter of days. The AAP said that Wednesday night saw widespread outages across the city despite relatively moderate demand.
“This never happened under the AAP government even when demand soared past 8,500 MW last year. The BJP has plunged Delhi back into the dark days of power cuts,” the party said in a statement. Delhi’s peak power demand surged to 5,462 MW at 3.27 pm on Wednesday — the highest recorded this year so far, according to data from the State Load Dispatch Centre (SLDC). The city’s peak power demand could touch 9,000 MW this season. Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, Atishi, said that she received hundreds of complaints throughout the night from across the city. “People across Delhi spent the night without electricity. The BJP’s Delhi Government is sleeping while Delhi is suffering,” she said on X. Delhi Power Minister Ashish Sood had earlier said that the outages were in the past part of “routine maintenance” to make sure the city is prepared for the upcoming summer.
“We are a 40-day-old government, yet they claim we have disrupted a system that was perfect for the last 10 years. There is no electricity crisis,” he said, claiming that the power cuts were
routine and happened every year during this time.
