Congress stirs during CSERC public hearing

 Raipur, March 02, 2012

Police arrested large number of Congress, Youth Congress (YC) and Youth INTUC members while they were protesting during public hearing organised by Chhattisgarh State Electricity Regulatory Commission (CSERC) on proposed hike in power tariff at Dagania-based headquarters of power companies on Friday. After sometime, all the agitators were released unconditionally.

The Congress and its frontal organisations - YC and Youth INYUC demonstrated aggressively at public hearing and demanded from the CSERC to drop the idea of hiking power tariff.

The PCC general secretary Ramesh Warlyani, DCC Raipur Urban president Inderchand Dhariwal and RMC Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak were prominently present during the public hearing.

Warlyani and Dhariwal led the demonstrating Congress workers and demanded from the CSERC officials to revoke the proposal of power tariff hike in favour of consumers.

On the occasion, the president of YC’s Raipur Lok Sabha Vinod Tiwari alleged that the proposed power tariff hike is intended to benefit large industrial houses. “The domestic power tariff will be hiked by 61-108% while that of commercial tariff for large industrial houses will be hiked by 35-56%,” he elaborated.

While the president of Raipur North Sunil Kukreja held the government responsible for loss of the power companies. “The government wanted to compensate the loss by shifting the financial burden on the consumers,” he said.

Similarly, the state president of Youth INTUC Aijaz Dhebar alleged that the police lathicharged on him and other members of the organisation when they reached at public hearing to protest proposed power hike. “On the occasion, several police personnel were present in civil dress and they started beating us when we reached there,” he charged.

Both YC and Youth INTUC warned the government of launching massive protest movement against it if the power tariff would be hiked.

CM reluctant in giving relief to public: Patel

Raipur, March 02, 2012

Launching scathing attack against Chief Minister Raman Singh on proposed power tariff hike by Chhattisgarh State Electricity Regulatory Commission (CSERC), PCC president Nandkumar said the CM himself was reluctant in giving relief to the common man despite keeping the Energy department with him. Condemning arrest of Youth Congress (YC) members during CSERC’s public hearing, he said the CM should understand that India follows democratic system and he was not supposed to adopt tyrannical attitude towards people protesting peacefully. He said the proposed power hike is illogical and imposition on public.