AAP calls for cancelling PPAs: ‘In 25 yrs, Punjab will end up paying Rs 2.25 lakh cr to private power firms’

Aam Aadmi Party state president Bhagwant Mann Monday said that if his party forms government in Punjab in 2022, the power agreements signed by the previous SAD-BJP government with private companies would be cancelled as not doing so would lead to people of the state paying these companies Rs 2.25 lakh crore in the next 25 years.

Mann said that while the SAD-BJP government had entered into these power agreements with the private power companies, the Congress government has implemented these faulty pacts.

“Due to this, Rs 20,000 crore has been given to the private power companies from the exchequer of Punjab without purchasing power. Also, the people of Punjab have to buy the most expensive power in the country,” he added.