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Power cut: Vikas Manch stages demo
MEMBERS OF Gorakhnath Purvanchal Vikas Manch on Monday staged a huge demonstration at the District Magistrate's office to express their anger over unscheduled and prolonged power rostering in the city.
MEMBERS OF Gorakhnath Purvanchal Vikas Manch on Monday staged a huge demonstration at the District Magistrate's office to express their anger over unscheduled and prolonged power rostering in the city.
BJP MP Yogi Adityanath, who participated in the demonstration, blamed the Mulayam Singh Yadav government for discriminating eastern UP in power distribution. He also expressed his apprehension that the city may witness law and order problem if the present apathetic attitude of power corporation officials continued further.
Adityanath said CM Mulayam Singh Yadav had promised to streamline the power supply within three months but even after 33 months no improvement was seen.
He said long hours of power rostering at night during the Board and University examination showed the insensitivity of the state government.
Adityanath said the situation became worse in Gorakhpur where people were not getting power for even 12 hours and the poor power supply also affected water supply in various localities. He also handed over a memorandum to the DM to be forwarded to the Governor and demanded 22-hour power supply in Gorakhpur.
He further said that Gorakhpur is a Maha Nagar therefore it should be exempted from power rostering. Expressing his views on this occasion state vice-president of the manch Rishi Mohan Verma, Narad Kushwaha and Vishnu Shanker Srivastav said the people of eastern UP would not bear the atrocity of the state government and they would launch a violent agitation against it.
They also threatened the power corporation officials to face the people's fury.
It is worthy to note that entire district is reeling under acute power cut for the last 10 days. The power supply system in the rural areas is worse than the urban araes.
Power corporation officials have expressed their helplessness and said though they had made several appeal to the higher authorities to minimise the power rostering at night but all their appeal was unheeded.
