New Delhi, June 27: With assembly polls a few months
away, Delhi BJP and the Congress government today engaged in
politicking over power tariff hike, with the opposition party
alleging "fraud" and "appeasement" of private distributing
companies and Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Rubbishing it.
Flaying the hike announced by Delhi Electricity
Regulatory Commission (DERC) yesterday, Delhi BJP president
Madan Lal Khurana alleged at a press conference that the raise
had been "influenced" by the city government to give "undue
benefit" to the private distribution companies.
"The entire matter is a conspiracy for increasing the
electricity rates by presenting false and concocted documents
and Delhi government is a party to this," Khurana alleged.
He claimed the congress government had engineered the
hike so that the ruling party could "use the money for
elections."
Demanding withdrawal of the hike, he said his party would
make it one of the major poll issues by raising it during the
'Satyagraha' from July one and 'Nyay Yatra' from August 15.
He said if his party came to power in the elections, it
will review the hike.
Bureau Report
