While Targeting Congress and B J P,The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) strongly condemned the discontinuation of the existing relief provided to the electricity consumers by its government in their monthly bills in Delhi from April 1.
According to the interim budget passed by the Parliament on Friday, the much needed relief of subsidising the electricity bills upto 50% for those consuming upto 400 units every month, provided by the AAP government from January onwards, will be discontinued from the next financial year.
AAP Party has expressed shocked over the central government’s decision to ignore the proposal of their government to continue this relief for the next six months (till September 2014).
Party Spokesperson Asawati Murlidharan has stated that When the preparations for the interim budget had started, the AAP government had clearly made a provision for this relief to continue and the power department was ready with its proposal. The Congress-led UPA government’s decision to reverse this pro-people’s measure is a betrayal with the people of Delhi.
The BJP is an equal partner in this anti-people decision, since despite having promised 30% reduction in the electricity bills in its manifesto for the Delhi assembly elections, it did not protest the Central government’s move when the interim budget was placed in both Houses of Parliament on Friday.
It is surprising to note that when more than 90% of the MLAs in the existing Delhi assembly, except for the eight Congress MLAs, agree that electricity bills should be reduced by atleast 30%, then how could the central government ignore such an overwhelming majority and impose its arbitrariness on the people of Delhi ?
It is clear that the Congress, which is yet to come to terms with its worst electoral performance in Delhi’s history, is trying to control the capital through President’s rule and is hell bent on seeking a revenge on the people for having punished it so badly for its misdeeds, by imposing financial burdens on the common man.
First, the Congress government led by Smt.Sheila Dikshit kept on fooling the people of Delhi that the audit of private power distribution companies by the C&AG was not possible due to the matter being pending in courts and now when it has been proved that the party was lying, it has now decided to help these companies by using the President’s rule as a ploy.
By having reversed the proposal of an elected state government, the Congress-led UPA government has tried to insult the popular mandate and the BJP needs to answer for how long is it willing to allow the undemocratic step of the assembly being kept in suspended animation ?
Party has called It a match-fixing between the Congress and BJP to increase the woes of the common man. The BJP’s mysterious silence on President’s rule is a clear signal that it wants to deny the people their right of having a democratically elected government.