Nagpur : BJP workers under the leadership of former minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule and MLC Pravin Datke burned power bills at 180 places in the city to protest a U-turn by incumbent energy minister Nitin Raut on power bill waiver for a lockdown period. Datke addressing the workers said Raut had thrice assured to provide a rebate in power bills but retracted his offer every time.
“People’s livelihood has been badly hit due to the Covid lockdown and they are no longer in a position to pay full bills. In spite of knowing this, Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government has decided to recover the entire amount from the consumers. Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) has already started sending disconnection notices. If the company staffers or their contractors try to disconnect anyone, BJP workers will prevent them from doing so,” he added.
MLAs Krishna Khopade, Vikas Kumbhare and Mohan Mate, former MLC Anil Sole, former MLA Sudhakar Deshmukh, Shivani Dani, Dayashankar Tiwari, Chandan Goswami and others participated in the agitation.
