Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers protest near Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh’s house over power cuts in Punjab’s Mohali. During this, the police used water cannon on AAP workers. Along with this, the police took into custody AAP MP Bhagwant Singh Mann and MLA Harpal Singh Cheema, who were present at the protest site.
Taking a jibe at Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, AAP said that the ‘coward’ Captain took AAP MP Bhagwant Mann and other leaders into custody. Your time is up, Captain! Aam Aadmi Party will soon provide 24 hours and 7 days electricity in Punjab.
There is a huge power cut in Punjab. Assembly elections are to be held there next year and in such a situation, electricity is poised to become a big election issue in the state. Aam Aadmi Party is besieging the Punjab government on the issue of electricity. Apart from AAP, Akali Dal had given Gharana yesterday on Friday.
Power is an important election issue in the state, it can be gauged from the fact that the National President of Aam Aadmi Party and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who visited Punjab last month, announced that if the AAP government is formed here, then every Three hundred units of electricity will be given to the family free of cost. In Delhi, Kejriwal’s government gives two hundred units of electricity for free.
Arvind Kejriwal had said, “Punjab gets almost the most expensive electricity in the whole country, Punjab generates its own electricity. Produces more electricity than what Punjab needs. Despite this, why is the most expensive electricity available in Punjab? In Delhi, we do not generate even a little electricity, buy all the electricity, yet there is almost cheap electricity in the whole country in Delhi. Power companies in Punjab have dirty nexus in government power, so electricity is expensive in Punjab. This nexus has to end.