Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal will visit Uttarakhand’s capital city Dehradun today in an attempt to expand his Aam Aadmi Party’s reach in the poll-bound state. Uttarakhand is to hold Assembly Polls next year in Feb/March along with Goa, Manipur, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.
In a tweet, the Delhi CM had hinted that their election campaign in the hill state would be to drive free electricity.
“Uttarakhand itself generates electricity and also sells it to other states. Then why is electricity so expensive for the people of Uttarakhand? Delhi does not generate its own electricity and buys it from other states. Still, electricity in Delhi is free. Shouldn’t the people of Uttarakhand get free electricity? See you tomorrow in Dehradun,” Kejriwal said in a tweet ahead of the visit.
His tweet came days after the Uttarakhand government said that 100 units of electricity will be provided free of cost every month to domestic consumers. “Those who use 100 units per month will be given electricity free of cost. Those using 101 to 200 units per month will get a 50 per cent discount,” he said, according to news agency ANI.
“That is, if someone gets a bill of 200 units in 2 months, then he will not have to pay any money,” the state power minister further said, adding those related to dairy, horticulture, and agriculture sectors, which were earlier under the commercial category of electricity consumers, will now be brought under the domestic category.