Probe ‘scam’ of discoms: Cong

Renewing its attack on the BJP and the Aam Aadmi Party, the Delhi Congress on Sunday alleged that the power distribution utilities in the state collected crores of rupees by forcing the consumers to increase the load capacity under the protection of these two parties. The Congress leaders alleged that a large portion of this amount has allegedly “gone as share of corruption.”

Addressing a public meeting in the third phase of the party’s Jan Jagran Abhiyaan against the BJP and AAP at the Babarpur Assembly constituency in the North East Delhi, unit spokesperson Mukesh Sharma alleged that the silence of the AAP on the scandal perpetuated by the power companies has also proved that the AAP leaders were not only sympathetic towards the power companies, but they were also in collusion with the power companies.

Demanded an “impartial inquiry” into the role of the BJP and the AAP leaders in “this multi- crore scandal,” the party claimed that it was a fit case for probe that why did the AAP remove its income and expenditure details from its website and whose money was being spent on the AAP’s agitations, and this matter should also be probed.

The unit also alleged the BJP leaders were deliberately making statements against the Muslim community in a bid to divert the people’s attention from serious issues like power and water, and it was vitiating the secular atmosphere.

Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee ( DPCC) chief Arvinder Singh Lovely said the BJP leader’s statement was part of the deliberate plan by the BJP and the RSS to create tension. “The BJP was trying to create friction in the social and secular fabric of the country in a deliberately planned manner and the speed in which the development works were carried out by the Congress government was being reversed,” he claimed.