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PANJIM: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday declared that if voted to power in 2022 Assembly elections, the party will give up to 300 units of free electricity in the State while ensuring 24×7 power supply. He also said that all old power bills will be waived off and farmers will get free electricity.
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Addressing a press conference in the city, Kejriwal said, “This is Kejriwal’s guarantee. Kejriwal does what he says; if AAP is elected in Goa, each house will get up to 300 units of free electricity. 87 per cent people in Goa will have to pay zero bill once they elect AAP to power:”
Kejriwal attacked the corrupt political system of Goa and reinforced that the people of Goa are fed up with how they voted for the Congress Party but the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ended up forming their government in the State. He assured the people of Goa of bringing a change in the State and introducing a clean political system with fresh faces, telling them how no AAP MLA could ever be bought by the BJP to form their own government in Delhi.
Talking about the aspirations of the people of Goa, Kejriwal said Goa wants change, Goa wants clean politics. The people of Goa are seeing how the people of Delhi kicked both BJP and Congress out and brought in the clean politics of AAP. “They are asking if Delhi can get free electricity, why can’t Goa? If there can be a 24-hour power supply in Delhi then why do power cuts take place in Goa? If Delhi can have the best in class government hospitals, mohalla clinics, roads, infrastructure and water, why not Goa?” he added.
Kejriwal said that on Tuesday night while having dinner with some Goans, he noticed that they were fed up with the power cuts even though Goa is a power surplus State. People told us that the electricity rates in Goa are exorbitant with lack of jobs and financial difficulties, due to COVID, it is implausible to pay bills. They told us how erroneous the old bills were and how consumers have to run from pillar to post to get them fixed and yet they are asked for bribes to correct them,” he added.
“Keeping all of these in mind, and on demand of the people of Goa I want to make my first guarantee on the electricity problem in the State. If I am guaranteeing this, it means AAP will implement it. This is not a mere hollow election promise, this is not a ‘jumla’ as other parties make. Kejriwal does what he says. This is my guarantee we will do it,” Kejriwal said.
