Hitting back at the Congress for its allegation that the Delhi government benefited power discoms at the cost of consumers, the Aam Aadmi Party challenged the party on Sunday to show a single state governed by it where power tariffs are lower than that of the national capital. The Congress had on Saturday alleged that the AAP government coaxed people living in rented accommodations to install separate power meters, following which the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission increased fixed charges benefitting the discoms.
At a press conference, the Congress party’s Delhi unit president Sheila Dikshit alleged the Arvind Kejriwal government “enacted a drama of installing lakhs of meters to benefit the power companies”. “Electricity bills used to be nominal before. In the name of fixed charges, the government collected crores of rupees and gave it to power discoms,” she alleged.
