Free power promise mere fantasy if PPAs not annulled, says Sidhu

As Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh reached Delhi to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi to discuss the crisis in the party’s state unit, former minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Tuesday mounted fresh pressure on the state government to annul the power purchase agreements with independent power producers in the state.

In a series of tweets, Sidhu pressed for the annulment of these PPAs through a new legislation in the assembly, stating that the free power promise is a mere fantasy till this is done. “Hollow promises of free power have no meaning until PPAs are annulled through a new legislation in Punjab Vidhan Sabha… 300 units of free power is merely a fantasy, until the faulty clauses in PPAs are keeping Punjab bonded (sic),” he tweeted,