BJP, PDP turn up heat on J&K govt on power surcharge; CM says no such proposal

SRINAGAR: BJP and PDP Monday deplored the projected program to enforce a 20 per cent surcharge connected peak-hour powerfulness depletion successful Jammu and Kashmir and termed it an “electoral fraud” by National Conference, prompting CM Omar Abdullah to contradict having immoderate specified proposal.Kashmir Power Development Corporation Ltd (KPDCL) projected a 20 per cent peak-hour powerfulness surcharge to Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) Thursday, sparking unease successful the authorities freezing successful the cold, with temperatures successful Srinagar dropping to minus 3.2 degrees Celsius connected Sunday night.BJP’s Sunil Sharma, person of absorption successful the assembly, said, “Omar Abdullah promised 200 units of escaped energy to each household successful the state.

Instead of fulfilling the promise, his govt is preparing to loot radical with an outrageous 20 per cent summation successful peak-hour depletion charges."PDP women helping staged a protestation successful Srinagar Monday against the KPDCL proposal. They were stopped by constabulary from moving beyond the enactment headquarters.Condemning the constabulary action, Mehbooba Mufti said, “Stopping the PDP women helping from holding a peaceful protestation against the crushing emergence successful powerfulness tariffs is different continuation of the battle connected our antiauthoritarian rights since 2019.”

Hurriyat Conference president Mirwaiz Umar Farooq besides criticized the proposal. “This is injustice. The govt should cognize that Kashmir’s system is already successful recession, and these steps volition beryllium counterproductive,” helium said.However, National Conference wide caput Ali Mohammad Sagar Monday said KPDCL had made the connection without consulting the govt and that it would “never person the main minister’s approval.”