Battered by inflated electricity bills after Covid 2nd wave, City Block Congress burnt electricity bills at Gandhi square as lodging protest against it. Electricity bills have been given to the citizens which are manifold times increased by the electricity distribution companies claimed the protestors.
On Wednesday lead by District Congress President Navkrishna Patil, Congressmen raised slogans against Shivraj Singh Chouhan government, terming the recovery being done in the name of electricity bills as loot and submitted a memorandum in the name of Governor of Madhya Pradesh was handed over Nayab Tehsildar.
District Congress President Patil said that the government did not spare even the electricity bills of the Corona period.
Along with collecting the bills of closed shops from the public, now by paying manifold bills, a huge burden has been put on the people who are suffering from already high inflation. Hefty electricity bills are planned loot from the public.
Former Mayor Mohammad Hanif Sheikh said that during the Corona period, the government has proved to be a failure in providing health services to the public, and on the contrary, the government is making recovery in the name of electricity bills by making the disaster an opportunity of loot.
Expressing anger against the huge electricity bills, he demanded to withdraw them.
On this occasion, State General Secretary Mahendra Singh Gurjar, Working President Ajay Lodha, SC Department District President Tarun Khichi, Backward Class District President Deepak Singh Chauhan, NSUI District President Sunil Baser, Kisan Congress District President Fakirchandra Gurjar were present.