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Gorakhpur MLA threatens agitation against power cuts
BREAKING THEIR silence over the unscheduled and prolonged power cuts in the city for the past 10 days, political leaders said here on Sunday that Gorakhpur was the victim of the discriminatory attitude of power control system. Local MLA Dr RMD Agrawal said that if discrimination in distribution did not end in two days, he would launch a movement against it.
BREAKING THEIR silence over the unscheduled and prolonged power cuts in the city for the past 10 days, political leaders said here on Sunday that Gorakhpur was the victim of the discriminatory attitude of power control system. Local MLA Dr RMD Agrawal said that if discrimination in distribution did not end in two days, he would launch a movement against it.
Dr Agrawal said that the citizens were not demanding uninterrupted power supply, they wanted suspension of night rostering and prolonged rostering. He said that 20- hour power supply to small cities and 12-hour power supply to Gorakhpur was unbearable and the people of the city felt insulted.
BJP MP Yogi Adityanath has also condemned the Mulayam Government for the dismal power scenario. He said when the party came to power, it promised that power supply would improve within three months but even after 33 months. there was no improvement in the power supply.
Activists of Gorakshanath Purvanchal Vikas Manch have also decided to launch a movement against the erratic power supply in the city. State vice president of the Manch Durgesh Chaurasia and secretary Gopal Singh Verma said people of the city would give a befitting reply to the apathetic attitude of the power corporation officials.
Workers of the Manch will stage dharna at the district magistrate’s office on Monday to vent their ire at prolonged rostering at night. They have also planned to disconnect the air-conditioners in government offices and to disturb the generator and inverter supply to the power corporation officials’ residences. They have identified the officials using ACs and generators.
