Akhilesh-Yadav, promised more relief than anticipated and regular cheap electricity to agriculture, households, industries and businesses, making SP the third political party in UP to hand out power doles to people in the run-up to the polls.
The Power-to-Politics route was most successfully followed by the Arvind-Kejriwal-Led, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), first in the 2013 Delhi Assembly polls, and it has repeated it since then.
Samajwadi-Party (SP) national president Akhilesh-Yadav, on Friday promised regular and cheap power supply for agricultural, domestic and industrial purposes if his party forms the government in Uttar Pradesh after the assembly elections. He also hit out at the BJP government over the power supply scenario in Uttar Pradesh.
In a tweet in Hindi, targeting the BJP government in the state, the former chief minister said: “Had the proposed power plants in District Etah and other districts been built, the people of Uttar Pradesh would not have been compelled to buy electricity at the highest rate in the country.”
He further wrote, “When the SP government takes over, we reiterate our resolve to provide more relief than anticipated and regular, cheap electricity to agriculture, households, industries and businesses.”
PARTY-MLC has no link with perfume trader: SP
The SAMAJWADI PARTY hit out at the BJP governments at the Center and in the state over the raids by Directorate General of GST Intelligences, leading to the discovery of huge cash on the premises of a PAAN MASALA trader and an ITRA (perfume) trader in Kanpur. The party said that this proves how badly demonetization had failed. The SP also hit out at the BJP for connecting the perfumer with an SP MLC.
Manish-Jagan-Agrawal, the digital media coordinator of SP, in a tweet in Hindi, said: “...the cash discovered speaks volumes about the failure of demonetization.”
He also wrote that BJP and media were unnecessarily linking the PAAN MASALA trader and the perfume trader with the SP and sullying the party’s image. SP MLC PAMMI JAIN has nothing to do with the perfume trader, the party said.
Akhilesh promises cheap electricity if voted to power
Lucknow, Dec 24 (PTI) Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday promised regular and cheap power supply for agricultural, domestic and industrial purposes if voted to power in next year’s Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.
“Had the proposed power plants in Etah and other districts been built, the people of Uttar Pradesh would not have been compelled to buy electricity at the highest rate in the country,” his tweet in Hindi targeting the BJP government read. “When the SP government takes over, we reiterate our resolve to provide more relief than anticipated and regular cheap electricity to agriculture, households, industries and businesses,” he said.
Refuting the allegations, UP Energy Minister Shrikant Sharma in a tweet alleged that the previous Samajwadi Party government increased electricity rates by over 60 per cent.
There has been “no increase” in electricity rates in the Yogi Adityanath government, he claimed.
“Electricity is being provided without any discrimination. Villages are getting more than 54 per cent electricity,” the minister said. PTI SAB NAV RDK RDK
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