Centre snatching state’s rights on electricity, claims AAP

New Delhi Slamming the Narendra Modi-led Central government for its insensitivity towards farmers, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab president and Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann and MLA from Delhi and Punjab affairs in-charge Jarnail Singh said the government now planed to deny states of electricity.

In a press conference, the AAP leaders claimed that if the Electricity Amendment Bill, 2021, was passed, electricity will no longer be the right of the states.

Mann claimed, “The Centre is now snatching electricity rights from states, just like it did with GST, agriculture, health, and education. Punjab contributes 40% to the grain pool, and electricity for tube-wells is free for the farmers. However, with this bill, the electricity subsidy that the farmers were getting from the Punjab government will end.”