New Delhi:Expressing concern over alleged irregularities in electricity billing in Uttar Pradesh, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today urged the BJP government to act against those responsible for it and demanded that the rate of power for farmers be halved immediately.
The Congress leader also demanded that relief be given to weavers, artisans and small-scale industries in electricity consumption.
In a statement, she said that there was a terror of rising electricity bills and of meters in the whole of UP.
Pointing out that there has been a big rise in electricity rates in the last few years, Priyanka Gandhi said that in the last eight years, the rates for rural household consumers have increased by 500 per cent, urban domestic electricity rates have risen by 84 per cent and for farmers the rates have increased by 126 per cent.
She said Uttar Pradesh has become a laboratory for electricity meters which have been found to run many times faster than they should.
Even in houses that are locked, a bill of up to Rs seven-eight thousand is coming, Priyanka said.