Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022: ‘Centre has betrayed us by presenting bill in Parliament’

Soon after the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022 was introduced in Parliament on Monday, protests started in Punjab, especially by farmers’ unions.

All the farmers’ unions in Punjab which had protested against the now-repealed farm laws at Delhi borders last year said that the Centre had assured the farmers then that it would not table the Bill in Parliament without holding prior consultation with all the stakeholders, including the kisan unions.

“It was given to us in writing,” said Dr Darshan Pal, coordination committee member of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM).