Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday declared that its ongoing ‘Bijli Morcha’, spearheaded by the party against high power tariff and erratic supply in Punjab, would continue till the Congress Government rolled back on pricey power.
“The only way forward to achieve the mission is that government scrap all power purchase agreements (PPAs) signed between the then BJP-SAD government and three private thermal plant operators,” said AAP MLA and campaign’s newly-appointed coordinator Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer.
Hayer said that the deaf and dumb government would not come on its feet until or unless people rose above the party lines and raise their voice against the erratic and pricey electricity. Both the rich and poor were bearing the brunt of unannounced outages and high tariff alike, he said.
Sharing sidelights of the ongoing ‘Bijli’ Morcha, Hayer informed that AAP had charted out a comprehensive roadmap to bring the Capt Amarinder Singh Government on board on the open ‘loot’ of the people by the current and the previous governments.
“The Badals pocketed huge commissions from the private power players under the anti-state and anti-people agreements entered into by them and private power players,” he said adding that the party would make the people, regardless of their political affiliations etc, aware of the ‘loot’ and making them a part of the ‘Bijli Morcha’.
During a party meeting at Sangrur on Wednesday, held under the leadership state core committee chief Principal Budhram, Leader of Opposition in Vidhan Sabha Harpal Singh Cheema, it was unanimously decided to take the ‘Bijli Morcha’ in the second phase reaching out to the people at the block and assembly segments-level.
“While the district level meetings and submitting of memorandums to deputy Commissioners (DCs) in this regard, under the comprehensive plan, had already taken off, the party, under the leadership of Principal Budhram, Cheema and state treasurer Sukhwinder Sukhi, would kick-start its marathon visits to make the people aware of the ‘Bijli Morcha’ on July 6,” he said.