Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 10: Senior Congress leader, Sanjeev Panda, Secretary Pradesh Congress Committee expressed great disappointment against the Power Development Department (PDD) over its tyrannical decision to snap the power supply of the people having inflated bills.
A strong protest dharna was held at Canal Head, outside PDD office, which was organized by the Congress workers lead by the Secretary Pradesh Congress Committee Sanjeev Panda. The protesting people from Jammu district assembled near the Chief Engineer’s office and protested against PDD for shooting them with inflated power bills.
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Panda warned the PDD officials to resist from such unjustifiable decisions and immediately restore the connections of the suffering people. He also demanded from the LG Administration to provide some units of electricity free to the people on the similar lines of Himachal and Rajasthan Congress Governments.
Farmers who are having their crop season of Paddy are facing huge difficulty as the PDD Department is desperate to snap their power supply. On the one side Government is showing its commitment that too in papers only to double their income but on the other side the PDD officials are forcing these poor farmers to starvation like situation as the entire crop will perish in the absence of basic facility of power.
Sanjeev Panda warned the Government officials to immediately stop such practices and threatened a larger agitation in case the issue is not resolved. He also said that the farmers are the pillars of the society and the Government must stop their harassment.
Prominent among those who were present during protest included, Dr Rama Kant Khajuria, Atul Sharma, Chander Shekhar, Darshan Lal Verma,, Vinay Sharma, Janak Raj Mehra, Santosh Kumar, Aman Ragotra, Suman Bhagat, Karan Singh, Manjeet Kour, Jyoti Kour, Darshana Devi, Veena Sharma and Gurminder Singh.
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