<p>Delhi Congress leaders on Thursday met Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) chief P D Sudhakar against hike in power tariff. The leaders warned Sudhakar of a massive campaign and gherao of the DERC building if he allows power discoms to hike the power tariff.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The delegation was led by Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh Lovely and former power minister Haroon Yusuf, former education minister Kiran Walia, former MLA Mukesh Sharma and former health minister A K Walia also joined it. Yusuf objected to power companies’ demands for a steep hike in the tariff.<br /><br />“We will not allow the DERC to revise and hike the power tariff. The power companies are continuously demanding a hike but we are against it,” he said. Mukesh Sharma requested Sudhakar to avert several hours long power cuts in many areas of Delhi.<br /><br />“Without any reason, the power discoms are resorting power cuts in unauthorised colonies and villages of Delhi. This is not a season when power companies face electricity crisis. We have requested the DERC chief to look in to the matter and stop unnecessary outages in the city,” Sharma said.<br /><br />Former MLA A K Walia, who was defeated in last Assembly elections by former Aam Aadmi Party MLA Vinod Kumar Binny, accused the AAP and the BJP for misleading people through their statements.<br /><br />“Congress is the only party which is serious about issues of power and water tariff. The other parties are only misleading people,” he said. Lovely warned DERC of a massive protest if it allows the discoms to hike the existing power tariffs.<br /><br />“We will gherao the DERC building and launch a massive campaign if the rates were hiked,” he said. Ex-CM Arvind Kejriwal had slashed the tariff to 50 per cent in two slabs — 0-200 units and 201-400 units.</p>
<p>Delhi Congress leaders on Thursday met Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) chief P D Sudhakar against hike in power tariff. The leaders warned Sudhakar of a massive campaign and gherao of the DERC building if he allows power discoms to hike the power tariff.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The delegation was led by Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh Lovely and former power minister Haroon Yusuf, former education minister Kiran Walia, former MLA Mukesh Sharma and former health minister A K Walia also joined it. Yusuf objected to power companies’ demands for a steep hike in the tariff.<br /><br />“We will not allow the DERC to revise and hike the power tariff. The power companies are continuously demanding a hike but we are against it,” he said. Mukesh Sharma requested Sudhakar to avert several hours long power cuts in many areas of Delhi.<br /><br />“Without any reason, the power discoms are resorting power cuts in unauthorised colonies and villages of Delhi. This is not a season when power companies face electricity crisis. We have requested the DERC chief to look in to the matter and stop unnecessary outages in the city,” Sharma said.<br /><br />Former MLA A K Walia, who was defeated in last Assembly elections by former Aam Aadmi Party MLA Vinod Kumar Binny, accused the AAP and the BJP for misleading people through their statements.<br /><br />“Congress is the only party which is serious about issues of power and water tariff. The other parties are only misleading people,” he said. Lovely warned DERC of a massive protest if it allows the discoms to hike the existing power tariffs.<br /><br />“We will gherao the DERC building and launch a massive campaign if the rates were hiked,” he said. Ex-CM Arvind Kejriwal had slashed the tariff to 50 per cent in two slabs — 0-200 units and 201-400 units.</p>
