Jakhar supports demand to review power agreements
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, January 14
With the demand for a review of the power purchase agreements (PPAs) gaining ground, senior Congress leaders, including PPCC chief Sunil Jakhar, today joined the chorus.
Jakhar demanded a white paper on the “faulty” PPAs and the roadmap on how the government proposed to offer relief to the consumers from rising power bills.
He said with the government having completed nearly three years, it would be too late to fix accountability. “The government needs to tell people in detail on how the Akalis are the source of their misery (rising power tariff). There is a need to come out with a roadmap to offer relief to the common man by bringing down the power rates,” he said.
The PPCC chief, while blaming the SAD for the power crisis, said he was equally accountable for the promise made prior to the 2017 Assembly elections to probe the power purchase agreements with the private thermal plants.
Bajwa: Act now or face consequences in 2022
Rajya Sabha member Partap Singh Bajwa demanded an all-party resolution in the Vidhan Sabha to fix responsibility.
“By bringing a white paper through technical audit by a HC judge on the wrongdoings in the power sector since 1997, accountability of those behind bleeding the state would be fixed. I call upon ministers and MLAs to prevail upon the CM to act in this matter or face the consequences in the 2022 Assembly elections,” he said.
The SAD, too, has been targeting the Congress as the state government, it said, did not act for three years. On the pattern of Delhi and Gujarat, the CM could have ordered a review of the power agreements, they claimed.
