Dear Sidhu, pay your electrical energy payments first. You can all the time protest later

With solely eight months left for the Punjab meeting elections, the political turf battle between Navjot Singh Sidhu and Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has reached a degree of no return. In what will be described as an insanely comical flip of occasions, whereas Sidhu on Friday was preaching steps to the Punjab authorities to keep away from main energy crises which have turn into routine within the state, it was revealed that Sidhu had not paid his electrical energy payments for the final 9 months.It has come to mild that the Congress chief is but to clear his dues of Rs 8,67,540 which was issued by the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) on June 22. According to the web site, the final date of constructing the fee was July 2, the identical day when Sidhu wrote a feature-length thread on Twitter.Upon requested why Sidhu’s connection was not lower regardless of having such an infinite invoice, the Chief Engineer at PSPCL sounded clueless and remarked that he had no data concerning the pending invoice.“Normally, a connection is temporarily disconnected if the consumer fails to make the bill payment within a month. Following the pandemic, we have asked the consumers to pay in instalments. We will find out why the payment has not been made,” mentioned Sakatar Singh, the Chief Engineer.On Friday, Sidhu was in his aspect in taking aside CM Singh as he sermonised the Punjab authorities on easy methods to present 24 hours electrical energy to the general public.“Truth of Power Costs, Cuts, Power Purchase Agreements & How to give Free & 24 hour Power to the People of Punjab:- 1. There is No need for Power-Cuts in Punjab or for the Chief Minister to regulate office timings or AC use of the Common People … If we Act in the right direction,” tweeted Sidhu.Truth of Power Costs, Cuts, Power Purchase Agreements & How to offer Free & 24 hour Power to the People of Punjab:- 1. There is No want for Power-Cuts in Punjab or for the Chief Minister to control workplace timings or AC use of the Common People … If we Act in the suitable course— Navjot Singh Sidhu (@sherryontopp) July 2, 2021“If we Act in the right direction…Punjab is buying Power at an average cost of Rs. 4.54 per unit, National Average is Rs. 3.85 per unit & Chandigarh is paying Rs. 3.44 per unit.” He added that Punjab is over-dependent on 3 privately owned Thermal vegetation, which charged between Rs. 5 – Rs. 8 per unit,” Sidhu additional added.Politics is a zero-sum recreation for the likes of Sidhu, who solely win, whereas the loser is the general public. Imagine a civilian having an impressive invoice of practically 9 lakhs and the Electricity board not understanding the standing of fee. It will be mentioned with utmost certainty that the mentioned commoner would have misplaced his connection a very long time again and the division would have made their lives hell. But for a frontrunner like Sidhu, the Electricity division and the federal government which he has a beef with continues to bend over backwards for him.