Raipur. Chhattisgarh Youth Congress today ran a “Bijli Bill Jalao Andolan” in all the assembly constituencies and raised slogans against the government. In the capital Raipur, under the leadership of state president Akash Sharma, Youth Congress workers protested against the expensive electricity bill and smart meter at the electricity office located at Budha Talab. During this, the workers raised slogans to reduce the increase in electricity bill.
In protest against the increase in electricity bill rates and smart meters, the workers raised slogans of BJP and Vishnu Dev Sai Murdabad. They burnt the electricity bill in front of the electricity office and then presented its ashes to the officials of the electricity office. They also said that they will seal the ashes in an envelope and give it to Chief Minister Vishnu Dev Sai.
State President Akash Sharma said that the common people of Chhattisgarh are troubled by the increase in electricity bills. Today, the Youth Congress ran a ‘Burn Electricity Bills’ movement in the electricity offices in all the assemblies of Chhattisgarh. In the previous Congress government, the beneficiaries of the half-half electricity bill scheme were available. Today, the BJP government is robbing the pockets of the common people by increasing the electricity bill. Those who used to get electricity bills of ₹1000 to 2000 earlier are now getting electricity bills of ₹4000 to 5000. There is a lot of anger among the general public today regarding this. The general public has given their increased electricity bills to us and we are agitating in 90 assemblies today.
Sharma said, today we burnt the electricity bill in front of the electricity office and presented the burnt ashes to the officials. Along with this, we have collected the burnt ashes of the electricity bill in an envelope and we will also get the burnt electricity bills from all the 90 assembly constituencies where the agitation is going on today and after filling them in the envelope, we will present it to Chief Minister Vishnu Dev Sai. We will demand from the CM that the rates of electricity bill should be reduced. This agitation will continue further. This is the beginning. In the coming times also, we will hold fierce protests regarding the electricity bill.
Mainly State President Akash Sharma, PCC General Secretary Deepak Mishra, Saqlain Mushtaq, City District President Girish Dubey, Youth Congress General Secretary Bhavesh Shukla, NSUI State Vice President Amit Sharma, District President Vinod Kashyap, Assembly President Sameer Bhatt, State Convenor Tushar Guha, State Secretary Abhishek Kasar, Ruchir Dubey, Ashutosh Mishra, Deepak Mishra, Lakshit Tiwari, Prateek Sharma, Shubham Dubey etc. were involved in the demonstration.
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