Jitu Patwari targets MP Government over power crisis, questions Scindia’s electricity bill
Anger has been growing in Madhya Pradesh over the power shortage and hiked electricity rates with party President Jitu Patwari lashing out at the BJP-led government and Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia. Poor electricity supply and high bills were adding to residents’ woes, primarily in rural areas, Patwari stated.
Patwari Makes Claim About Scindia’s Palace Electricity Bill
Patwari accused Scindia with having reduced its electricity bill relative to that of poor people in small huts, who were getting bills of electricity for their small houses.
He said that people are getting charged with thousand and lakhs of rupees even though they have to face even unreliable power supply in homes and also they are in darkness. Independent verification of the claim about the electricity bill of Scindia was not made available in the statement.
Patwari also levelled allegations against the state’s Energy Minister, saying that the minister had been missing for months and people were looking for him with his photograph. When he observed that he was embarrassed even for the BJP ministers, legislators, workers to see the poorly lit or unlit villages, said he was shivering.
Questions Over Electricity Supply to Rural Areas
An aggrieved Patwari alleged that the government was at fault in ensuring “reliable” electricity in Madhya Pradesh. He asserted that multiple villages were facing power outages for days and asked if the government is doing its best to keep an eye on the matter.
He also questioned the reports that Madhya Pradesh was providing electricity to the Delhi metro. The Patwari raised the question about the state’s selling of power across its borders and why the farmers and rural population is still suffering from the electricity shortage.
His quote has added electricity distribution, billing and supply to rural areas to the political debate in the state.
The charges coincide with general worries about the affordability and access to electricity in rural areas. The length of outages, however, and electricity bills for each resident and how much the state sells homes in the state for cannot be verified independently.
The state government did not provide any of the Patwari’s particular claims in the statement.