Check at Mulayam’s house shows unpaid power bill of Rs 4 lakh

Etawah, April 21

A surprise inspection was conducted by a team of electricity officials at the residence of former chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, which revealed that the SP leader has an unpaid electricity bills of Rs 4 lakh.

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The team upon arriving at his residence found that the permissible limit of 5 kw a day was being busted by as many as eight times.

The leader has been asked to pay the bill within a month. The Samajwadi Party (SP) patriarch's sprawling residence in the Civil Lines area of his constituency Etawah is one of the biggest in the city with more than a dozen rooms, its own air-conditioning plant, a temperature-controlled swimming pool and several elevators.

Officials had changed the configurations to allow him 40 kW against a payment in lieu of the additional power supply.

After taking over as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath had said that he would put an end to the VIP culture in the state.

—ANI