Roll back tariff hike or face protests, says Youth Cong
Sunday, 05/08/2012
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120805/punjab.htm#3
Activists of the Punjab Youth Congress (PYC) have urged the state government to roll back the power tariff hike. They said they would gherao Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal if their demand was not met.
PYC president Vikramjit Singh Chaudhary along with Youth Congress leaders Gurjot Singh Dhindsa, Kulbir Singh Zira and Damanjit Singh Mohi today submitted a memorandum to Governor Shivraj Patil at Raj Bhawan in this regard.
Chaudhary said the activists would hold a protest outside cabinet minister Adesh Partap Singh Kairon's residence at Kairon village in Patti on August 6”.
He said: “The development works carried out in the state were possible with the funds sanctioned by the Union Government. Despite this, the Akalis have been accusing the Centre for state’s fiscal deficit, power crisis, non-implementation of welfare schemes etc. The SAD has betrayed the people by making unrealistic promises in before the assembly elections”.
The alliance government has failed miserably to popularise Central Government schemes meant for the common man, he added.
