‘Day-long assembly session can’t solve people’s problems’

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday sought the extension of the state’s special assembly session, saying a daylong session cannot solve people’s problems. A daylong special assembly session has been summoned on September 3 for the commemoration of the 400th ‘Parkash Parb’ of Guru Tegh Bahadur.

Amid the ongoing power tussle between the camps of Chief Minister Amarinder and Congress’s state unit chief Sidhu, the cricketerturned-politician on Monday took to Twitter, demanding the government’s directions to the power regulator to revise tariff to provide relief to consumers.

Sidhu, who has been at loggerheads with the CM, has been pressing for the state government’s action on an 18-point programme of the Congress high command for the state. The programme included action in the 2015 case involving the desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib in Faridkot and subsequent police firing on the people protesting the sacrilege, the arrest of ‘big fish’ behind drug rackets and scrapping of power purchase agreements with various private firms. “The Punjab Govt must immediately issue directions to PSERC in Public Interest to revise tariff being paid to Private Power Plants making the faulty PPAs null & void. Further calling a 5-7 day Vidhan Sabha Session to bring a New Legislation for termination of faulty PPAs !!,” Sidhu said in a tweet.

“This will help Punjab Govt give 300 units of free power to all domestic consumers including those of general category, decrease the domestic tariff to Rs3 per unit & Rs5 per unit for industry, along with redressal of all outstanding bills, waiving-off the unjustifiable & exorbitant bills!!,” he said in another tweet.