Hours after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) delivered on its big-ticket election promises
"They have promised they will streamline the discom operations, they will ensure efficiency and they will bring about lower cost of power generation. So, the people of Delhi would want to see how the AAP Government goes about achieving this rather than only giving subsidies and that too, a limited section of the Delhi population. It's a beginning but I think this is not the kind of beginning that we had expected from the AAP government," BJP spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao told ANI here.
"The AAP Government's first decision in implementing its manifesto promises certainly leaves people disappointed because the AAP when they came up with their manifesto they said they will give power at 50 percent of the present prices to all the consumers and now they have again applied conditions and then they have restricted it to only consumers who consume less than 400 units ," he added.
Earlier in the day, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia announced that people in the city using under 400 units will be provided electricity at half the price from March 1 and 20,000 litres water each month shall be free per household.
"We had promised to reduce power tariffs, the families using power till 400 units will get it on half the price. This will be effective from the 1st of March. Those families using more than 400 units will have to pay the entire bill," Sisodia said at a press conference here.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had promised a 50 percent reduction in power tariff and clean drinking water at affordable prices in its 70-point election manifesto to the people of Delhi.