Electricity amendment bill: States not consulted, Mamata Banerjee writes to PM
Protesting against the Centre’s move to place the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020 in Parliament, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday alleged that states were not consulted properly regarding it. She also wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to “refrain from initiation of the legislation”.
In her letter, she said that if the bill was passed, it would “hamper the interest of the common people”.
Banerjee wrote, “Power is too important a sector for such unilateral interferences, especially when ‘electricity’ as a subject is in the Concurrent List of the Constitution of India and any legislation on a subject in such a list needs serious prior consultation with the states.
