MUMBAI: Facing protests from the Opposition BJP over high power bills and the state\u2019s drive to recover electricity dues, deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar assured the state legislative assembly on Tuesday that there would be no disconnection of power for both domestic and agricultural consumers until the state assembly held a discussion on the issue.
\nEarlier, the BJP held demonstrations outside the state assembly against the drive and high power bills.
\nSpeaking in the assembly, leader of the Opposition Devendra Fadnavis said, \u201cThere is a lot of anger against the huge power bills. Some have received bills of Rs 80 crore. The disconnection drive is on even though people have suffered because of the lockdown and floods in the state. Small shopkeepers have not been able to reopen due to massive dues.\u201d
\nHe added, \u201cThe energy minister says there will be reductions but, instead, the power rates have gone up.\u201d After Pawar\u2019s announcement, he demanded that the government restore connections of those whose power had been cut off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MUMBAI: Facing protests from the Opposition BJP over high power bills and the state\u2019s drive to recover electricity dues, deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar assured the state legislative assembly on Tuesday that there would be no disconnection of power for both domestic and agricultural consumers until the state assembly held a discussion on the issue. Earlier, the BJP held demonstrations outside the state assembly against the drive and high power bills. Speaking in the assembly, leader of the Opposition Devendra Fadnavis said, \u201cThere is a lot of anger against the huge power bills. Some have received bills of Rs 80 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}