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Why making individuals wait until July 1 without cost energy, Punjab Congress chief asks CM Bhagwant Mann

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By PTI

CHANDIGARH: Shortly after Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann introduced 300 items of free electrical energy for each family within the state each month from July 1, Congress chief Sukhpal Singh Khaira on Saturday requested why was the AAP delaying in implementing its pre-poll promise.

Former MP and Punjab Congress legislature celebration chief Partap Singh Bajwa too stated they might undergo the main points of the order to see if there was any “hidden agenda” in it.

He made the comment even whereas welcoming the AAP authorities’s transfer.

Chief Minister Mann on Saturday introduced the implementation of his celebration’s pre-poll promise of 300 items of free energy to each family each month from July 1.

Giving 300 items of free electrical energy was one of many main ballot guarantees of the Aam Aadmi Party throughout the Punjab meeting elections.

The celebration’s nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal had promised it in June final yr.

Congress MLA from Bholath Sukhpal Singh Khaira on Saturday requested CM Mann why free electrical energy can be given from July month solely.

“I welcome @BhagwantMann for fulfilling his promise of 300 units of free electricity but why wait till 1st July? Is there an issue of fiscal management? And please clarify if the bill is 301 units, will the consumers be charged the full bill? Lastly any move to do away with the tubewell subsidy?” requested Khaira in a tweet.

While welcoming the AAP authorities’s transfer, Qadian MLA Partap Singh Bajwa stated, “As the Opposition, we will go through the details to ensure there are no hidden agenda unforeseen to the public eye with the policy.”

“I hope this new policy will not change the current power subsidies for our farmers. After all the devil is in the details,” stated Bajwa.

Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring too insisted on analyzing the main points of the order, saying “the Proof of the pudding is within the consuming”.

“Bhagwant Mann Ji , The Proof of the pudding is within the consuming… The truthfulness of your 300 unit free energy can be examined within the particulars and circumstances hooked up to it…Best of luck to PSPCL which has to outlive now, one way or the other.”

Punjab BJP chief Subhash Sharma took on the Bhagwant Mann-led authorities, saying the AAP-led regime was simply making bulletins.

Referring to ads put out by the state data and public relations division in varied newspapers on the state authorities’s 30-day report card, Sharma stated the federal government had introduced the organising of an anti-gangster taskforce however regardless of that greater than 30 murders have taken place within the state in final one month.

“People of Punjab want results and performance but your government has failed completely on this front,” alleged Sharma.