Arvind Kejriwal announces free electricity for Delhi people
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IBNS): In a major announcement ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said people staying in the national capital won't be charged a penny for consuming electricity till 200 units.
Kejriwal said around 32 lakh or two-third of the Delhi population will be benefited due to the step.
"The electricity bills are now lowest in the entire country for 200 as well as 400 units," Kejriwal, who the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), said.
Earlier, the AAP government had announced free rides for women in metros and state buses. The step to provide free service to the people was criticised by the opposition parties.
The AAP government's move is perceived as a strategy to woo voters as Delhi will go to state polls in 2020.
Though the AAP had a landslide victory in the last assembly elections, Kejriwal's party has failed to win even a single seat in Delhi in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls.
All the seven Lok Sabha seats were won by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had won only three seats in the last state polls.
The AAP had won 67 out of 70 assembly seats in 2015.
Image Credit: twitter.com/AamAadmiParty
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