The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday termed the hike in electricity tariffs in Delhi as "unjustified" and "unreasonable", saying it would give "undue benefit to private power distribution companies."
Attacking the BJP for "yet another U-turn", AAP said in a release that "the BJP has failed to deliver on its manifesto promise of reducing the electricity tariff by 30 per cent, and has instead raised the electricity tariff by 8.32 per cent.
AAP, which had made electricity and water tariff a poll issue in the Delhi elections last year-end, said the hike has come at a time when the people of Delhi were already facing acute hardships due to steep price rise, especially in LPG, diesel, petrol and food commodities like onions and tomatoes.
Former Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal, while demanding 50 per cent reduction in the electricity tariffs in Delhi , alleged that the BJP Government appears to be too keen to help the private power distribution companies (discoms) at the cost of heaping miseries on the common man one after the other.
"Hiking the tariffs when CAG audit of these discoms is going on is a betrayal with the people of Delhi, who have a right to know whether the tariff being charged from these is inflated or correct ," he said in an audio recording released on the social networking site.