Jammu, 26 August (H.S.): Omar Abdullah-led NC Government has once again betrayed the people of Jammu & Kashmir by hiking electricity tariffs instead of fulfilling its promise of 200 units of free power, said J&K BJP Spokesperson Dr. Abhijeet Singh Jasrotia, condemning the Government for making the common man pay for its administrative failures and broken promises.

BJP Spokesperson Dr. Abhijeet Singh Jasrotia, along with Party's media in charge, Dr. Pardeep Mahotra, was addressing a hard-hitting press conference at the J&K BJP Headquarters, Trikuta Nagar,here.

Dr Jasrotia said the tariff hike will directly overload the pockets of the common people and shatter the monthly budgets of poor and middle-class families. Displaying a light bulb before the media, he said the electric bulb, invented by Thomas Alva Edison as a landmark invention, reached villages such as Karen, Dooru in Anantnag, and several villages in Reasi only decades later, receiving electricity after 2019.

Thousands of people in these villages were denied even this basic facility for decades. When the NC Government failed to provide electricity to its people for so many decades, what right does it have to bluntly increase electricity tariffs today? Dr. Jasrotia asked.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Krishan Kumar