Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday announced free electricity up to 300 units per month to every family, free electricity to farmers and waiving off of old bills if the party was voted to power in Uttarakhand.
Kejriwal said that the AAP Government in Uttarakhand will provide 300 units of electricity to every family in the State.
“In Delhi, the first 200 units are free while from 200-400 units, the half-rate is charged. So here we have done with the half-rate charge. 300 units of electricity each month would be given to every family. Second, for the last several months, our workers were going from village to village and town to town in the State and found that many times residents are given wrong bills. And when someone goes to get their bills rectified, they are forced to bribe officers. So, the second guarantee is that the old bills will be waived. We will start afresh,” he said.
“Uttarakhand generates electricity and even sells it to other States.
Then why is it that the people of Uttarakhand have to pay so much for electricity? Has any Government ever thought of giving free or cheap electricity? The people whose lands were acquired for Tehri Dam were promised free electricity. Did they get free electricity? It was not given free of cost even to those who were promised,” he said.
Uttrakhand Power Minister Harak Singh Rawat had recently announced that the State Government will give free electricity to people of the state up to 100 units.
“The Uttarakhand has been blessed by an abundance of beauty and natural resources. There are rivers, mountains, trees, vegetation, and even herbs in the State. There are great, honest, and hardworking people as well in Uttarakhand but the leaders and parties have left no stone unturned to destroy the State,” he said.
Kejriwal said that the people of Uttarakhand are being grinded between the two parties as well and both these parties are playing a game among themselves in a very systematic manner.
The AAP, which has not been able to win a single seat in the state in the past elections, has plans to emerge as an alternative to both Congress and BJP in the next Assembly polls due next year.