Chandigarh: Hitting Delhi’s partner for the suspicion of the last failure to provide free strength to farmers in the national capital, Minister of Punjab Amarinder Singh, on Monday, was accused of telling false promises to enter voters who were free into punjab from the assembly selection of 2022 .
“The government of the Kejriawal has completely failed from Delhi on all things without free force for farmers in villages located in the national capital and power fare is too high for the industry,” the alleged Amarinder.
He claimed that the Punjab people had rejected Delhi’s governance model on all things.
The Chairman of the Punjab Minister called the Delhi tariff structure of the “organized booty” case by the Government of AP led by Kejriawal.
He claimed that the Delhi government allowed private power distribution companies to collect too high rates from ordinary people.
He said while Delhi imposed Rs 9.80 per unit for the strength of the industry, the Government of Congress in Punjab collected subsidized rates of Rs 5 per unit to attract the industry to Punjab.
He also said there were more than RS 85,000 crores worth of investment in the field in the past four years.
Subsidized power is currently given to 1,43,812 industrial units in Punjab with an annual subsidy of Rs 2,226 Crore, it shows.
“In contrast to Punjab, where the government provides free power worth 6,735 crore to 13,79,217 farmers, the Government AAP in Delhi does not try at all to expand the same support with the agricultural community there,” said Chairman of the Minister.
He alleged that the Kejriawal government was the first to notify one of the anti-farmer agricultural laws at the center in Delhi and said AAP pretended to sympathize with Punjab farmers.
At electricity tariffs, Amarinder said the Delhi government fooled people by placing a small number into one bag by a way of 200 units of domestic forces free and took a higher amount of other bags by high tariffs paid by shop owners, industries and farmers for commercial strength and agriculture.
The Delhi government charged Rs 11.34 per unit from small shop owners and other commercial companies, which were 50% higher than the charge in Punjab, he said.
Comparing subsidies from the two states, Amarinder said that the Punjab government paid the annual power subsidy bill of Rs 10,458 Crore while the government of the Kejriawal paid Rs 2,820 crore when Delhi’s population was two crores from Punjab compared to three crores.
He said this was translated into the average power subsidy of Rs 3,486 per person in Punjab, compared to Rs 1,410 for Delhi residents.
Amarinder added that the Punjab government provided subsidized power of Rs 10,458 Crores, or 2.24% of total income, while the Delhi government provided subsidies of Rs 2,820 Crore, which was only 1.03% of its total income.
Average price for higher power in Delhi than PB: Amarinder
