The Delhi Congress unit on Saturday alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party government had benefited power discoms by coaxing people living in rented accommodations into installing separate power meters.
‘Fixed charges’
Levelling allegations of corruption against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Sheila Dikshit said that the AAP government was in “connivance with power distribution companies” and was “looting consumers” by levying higher “fixed charges”.
Demanding the government to not bill power consumers for the next six months, Ms. Dikshit said: “The Kejriwal government, in the name of providing relief to the common people, installed lakhs of new power meters to openly benefit the power companies. Earlier, bills used to be nominal but now, in the name of fixed charges, the government collected crores of rupees and gave it to the power discoms.”
DPCC working president Haroon Yusuf said, “After the meters were installed, the fixed charge component of power tariff was raised causing a lot of trouble to the poor. In the last one-and-a-half years, the power companies have collected ₹7,401 crore from power consumers in the name of fixed charges.”
A high-level delegation of the DPCC, headed by Ms. Dikshit, is likely to meet Mr. Kejriwal on Monday, added Rajesh Lilothia, DPCC working president.
“If the AAP government does not take action to provide relief to the people, then the Congress will mount an agitation to get relief to the people from the power companies,” added Mr. Lilothia.
