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| Comrade Vijender Sharma adressing the protestors |
The
Delhi State CPI (M) on 28 June, 2012 held a demonstration at ITO
to protest against the massive increase in power tariffs announced by
the DERC two days ago. Hundreds of men and women participated.
The protestors were addressed by Anurag Saxena (CITU), Sehba Farooqui (JMS), Puran Chand (DYFI), Arjun Sengupta (SFI) and P.M.S. Grewal (CPI-M). Party State Secretariat member, Vijender Sharma presided over the protest meeting.
The speakers strongly condemned the Delhi State Government for heaping such a huge burden upon the people of Delhi. Power tariffs have increased by an unheard of 64% in just 10 months. Coming in the backdrop of high inflation, especially in food items, this hike in power tariffs is nothing but a brazen attack on the livelihood of the people. The alacrity, with which the Chief Minister has defended hikes in power tariffs, makes it amply clear that she has no concern for the people of Delhi. Instead she is behaving more like an agent of private power companies.
The speakers demanded immediate withdrawal of the recent power tariff hike. This must be followed by an independent and transparent audit of the accounts of the power companies, who as is known have been fudging their books to conceal the massive profits that they are actually making.
The demonstration ended with the resolve to take the campaign against the power hike to wider sections of the people for building pressure to force the government to withdraw these atrocious hikes in power tariffs.
The protestors were addressed by Anurag Saxena (CITU), Sehba Farooqui (JMS), Puran Chand (DYFI), Arjun Sengupta (SFI) and P.M.S. Grewal (CPI-M). Party State Secretariat member, Vijender Sharma presided over the protest meeting.
The speakers strongly condemned the Delhi State Government for heaping such a huge burden upon the people of Delhi. Power tariffs have increased by an unheard of 64% in just 10 months. Coming in the backdrop of high inflation, especially in food items, this hike in power tariffs is nothing but a brazen attack on the livelihood of the people. The alacrity, with which the Chief Minister has defended hikes in power tariffs, makes it amply clear that she has no concern for the people of Delhi. Instead she is behaving more like an agent of private power companies.
The speakers demanded immediate withdrawal of the recent power tariff hike. This must be followed by an independent and transparent audit of the accounts of the power companies, who as is known have been fudging their books to conceal the massive profits that they are actually making.
The demonstration ended with the resolve to take the campaign against the power hike to wider sections of the people for building pressure to force the government to withdraw these atrocious hikes in power tariffs.
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