SP poll promise led to panic in govt: Akhilesh on power waiver

A day after the Yogi Adityanath-led government halved power tariffs for farmers with tubewells, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said that his party’s poll promise of giving free electricity led to “panic” in the government and prompted it to announce the waiver.

“Our first announcement in the New Year of providing free electricity up to 300 units to the poor has led to panic in the government. Now, I am hearing that they are lowering prices for electricity and have halved the tariffs for farmers. We want to give it for free, whereas they want to make it half. Now, the public will decide what they want,” Akhilesh said in Gonda after unveiling a statue of ex-minister Vinod Kumar Singh.