A large number of Congress leaders and workers of the city staged a demonstration here on Monday in front of the office of the Madhya Pradesh Western Region Electricity Distribution Company in protest against rise in electricity tariff for farmers.
Carrying lanterns in their hands, a large number of Congress workers led by the Congress MlA Jeetu Patwari, former MlA Tulsi Silawat and others thronged at the office of the Madhya Pradesh Western Region Electricity Distribution Company on Monday and raised slogans against both the state government as well as the electricity distribution company for hiking electricity tariff, which they said affect the farmers financially.
Following information about Congress demo, the MP Western Region Electricity Distribution Company had requisitioned police jawans at the office in large number to maintain law and order situation. Though the Congress leaders tried to make a forced entry inside the premises of electricity Distribution Company, police jawans who were present there in strength, prevented them from entering the office premises.
After sometime, the senior officials of the electricity distribution company went outside the gate of company and accepted memorandum from the Congress leaders.
Prior to demonstration, Congress leaders addressed a gathering of party workers and flayed the Government for arbitrarily raising the electricity tariff.