Mr Kejriwal asked why electricity was so costly in the state despite it being a power producer and sending it to others.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, launching the Aam Aadmi Party’s Uttarakhand campaign with big promises, announced that his party will dramatically reduce the electricity bills of the state citizens. Among the announcement made by the AAP supremo, the most important ones focused on electricity: no power cuts, 300 free units every month for each household, a waiver of earlier bills, and free supply to farmers.
The Delhi Chief Minister cited his party’s performance in Delhi to to tell voters of the hill state that they need to avoid the BJP and the Congress which are only after attaining power and not development.
In his first press conference amid AAP’s campaign for the state polls scheduled for February 2022, Mr Kejriwal said: “Uttarakhand’s people have been getting ground by these two parties (BJP and Congress) like grain between two millstones…They are only fighting for the chair.”
“Who will think of the development of the people of Uttarakhand?” the AAP leader asked.
Before moving on to the power sector, Mr Kejriwal talked briefly about price rise and the problems faced by ordinary families because of it.
Mr Kejriwal asked why electricity was so costly in the state despite it being a power producer and sending it to others. He also asked if any party had even considered providing free power to the people of the state.
“I heard the Uttarakhand power minister announcing on TV the provision of 100 units free and between 100 and 200 units at half the price. But will those who make such promises six months before elections stick to them?” the Delhi Chief Minister asked.
“Today I am guaranteeing four things on the power issue. And this is not an election jumla,” Mr Kejriwal said, while announcing the party’s poll promise of free 300 units among others.
If an AAP government is formed in Uttarakhand, no taxes will be increased for five years and the state will not seek loan, Mr Kejriwal promised.
“What we did in Delhi, we will do in Uttarakhand, too,” he said.
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