Sidhu mocks Punjab govt, asks it to follow AAP’s Delhi electricity model

TIL Desk/National/Chandigarh/ Mocking at his own government in Punjab over power outages, Congress leader and former Cabinet minister Navjot Sidhu on Friday asked the government to follow the AAP’s Delhi model of extending subsidies to generation companies.

“There is no need for power cuts in Punjab or for the Chief Minister to regulate office timings or AC use of the Common People…If we act in the right direction,” said a sulking Sidhu, who met Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul Gandhi separately in New Delhi on June 30 and apprised them of the political situation in Punjab that will go to the polls early next year.

Facing severe electricity crisis, the Punjab government curtailed timings of government offices from Friday, and cut down power supply to high energy consuming industries with immediate effect to save crops and ease the domestic power situation.

Sidhu, in a series of back-to-back tweets, said, “Punjab already gives Rs 9,000 crore power subsidy but Delhi gives only Rs 1,699 crore as power subsidy. “If Punjab copies Delhi model, we will get merely Rs 1,600-2,000 crore as Subsidy. To better serve the people of Punjab — Punjab needs an original Punjab model, not a copied Model!!”