Raipur,
May 16, 2013
The members of Congress and its frontal organisations clashed with
police during public hearing on proposed power tariff hike at headquarters of
power companies in Dagania on Thursday. When the Congmen kicked up a row at
public hearing camp for over 20 minutes and demanded for no change in electricity
rates the police pushed them out of the gate.
Earlier,
the Congmen reached public hearing camp sloganeering against government and
power companies. The police stopped the protesters at the gate of the power
companies’ headquarters. However, when former PCC president Dhanendra Sahu,
Congress MLA Kuldeep Juneja and PCC general secretary Ramesh Warlyani urged the
police to open the gate, the Congmen were allowed to enter.
YC
protests with lanterns, candles
The
YC members led by their state vice president Deepak Mishra protested power
tariff hike with lanterns and candles. Mishra said Chhattisgarh state
electricity regulatory commission (CSERC) once again did formality of
conducting public hearing to invite claims and objections on proposed power
tariff hike, however, it would eventually give verdict in favour of power
company.
Generation
cost up due to wrong policies: Warlyani
PCC
general secretary Ramesh Warlyani said power generation cost increased due to
government’s wrong polices and corruption prevailed in power companies.
He
pointed that power tariff was Rs two per unit and generation cost 99 paise per
unit during constitution of Chhattisgarh state. “The Congress government kept
electricity rates unchanged from 2000 to 2003, but thereafter the BJP government
increased the rates six times. Now the power tariff has reached to Rs five per
unit and generation cost Rs three per unit,” he said.
He
alleged that the government deliberately wanted to hike power tariff to benefit
the private power producers. “This is how it will buy electricity at higher
rate from the private players through which several BJP leaders are linked,” he
said.
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