Aday after advocating for a 24-hour supply with no power cuts and free power upto 300 units, Congress leader and former state minister Navjot Sidhu has askedthe Captain Amarinder-led-Punjab Government to bring ‘White-Paper’ on Badalsigned PPAs.
Ina series of tweet, Navjot Sidhu said, “Badal-signed PPAs are looting Punjab& legal options against them are limited due to their protection fromHon’ble Courts. Only way forward is “New Legislation in Punjab Vidhan Sabha”with retro-effect capping power purchase prices to make the anti-people agreementsredundant”.
Hehas earlier said that Punjab already provides Rs 9,000 crore subsidy but thegovt must do more for domestic and industrial consumer giving power at Rs 3-5per unit instead of surcharge inflated Rs 10-12 per unit, along 24-hour supplywith no power cuts and free power up to 300 units.
Healso tweeted that a White-Paper on PPAs must be brought in Punjab Vidhan Sabhato make Badals & other authors of these corrupt agreements accountable toPeople. “I have been demanding this since 2017, But bureaucratic control ofdepartment corners People-elected Ministers to mere showpieces”, he added.
Meanwhile,the tussle in the Punjab Congress is far from over with Chief MinisterAmarinder Singh and Navjot Singh Sidhu still at loggerheads and the latter isnot leaving any stone unturned to target the Chief Minister, thoughinterventions from the Gandhis have been futile and both sides are flexingtheir muscles.
Since the past many days Sidhu has been targeting his own government over power outages andasked the government to follow the AAP's Delhi model of extending subsidies togeneration companies.
Besides,the formula suggested by Priyanka Gandhi to position Sidhu at the helm in theorganisation has not been endorsed by Rahul Gandhi and the former Congresschief is upset with Sidhu for targeting the Chief Minister publicly.