Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring mocks AAP’s ‘power cut-free Punjab' claims

Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today ridiculed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government’s latest slogan of a “power cut-free Punjab”, questioning whether the government had added even a single unit to the state’s existing power generation capacity.

Taking a dig at the ruling party, Warring said the so-called scheme existed “only in slogans and not on paper”. “Ensuring an uninterrupted power supply means increasing generation capacity. For that, you need new power plants. Which new project has AAP installed in Punjab?” he asked.

He said even the GVK Power Plant, which the AAP government often cited as an achievement, was already operational in the state and merely transferred from the private to the government sector.

Reacting to the launch of the ‘Roshan Punjab’ project by Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann along with AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal, Warring said it was “yet another instance of the AAP’s repackaging—old wine in new bottles”.

He claimed that successive governments prior to AAP’s tenure had steadily increased generation capacity, making Punjab a power-surplus state long ago. “It was during AAP’s inefficient rule that the state witnessed prolonged power cuts over the past four years,” Warring said, adding that the party was now resorting to “bogus claims at the fag end of its term.”

“It is like issuing a blank cheque against a crashing bank”, he remarked, while pointing out, by next year, the deadline set by the AAP for “power cut-free Punjab”, its countdown would already have started.