PSEB Unbundling
Kaypee seeks all-party meeting
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 12
Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Mohinder Singh Kaypee has urged Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to immediately summon an all-party meeting in view of the confrontation building up between the people and the state machinery on the issue of unbundling of the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB).

He said the government was “playing with fire” and the confrontation could have very serious repercussions triggering violence as the law and order situation was already very fragile. He said the state government was pushing the state
towards chaos and violence.

Kaypee said the failure of the state government to remove apprehensions in the minds of various sections of society, who are going to be directly affected by this move, the common people in the state are left with no other option but to opt for the path of agitation.

He said the all-party meeting should be convened before April 15, the date from which the unbundling is to come into effect, so that the confrontation between the people and the security forces is avoided.

Parminder Singh, PPCC, media in charge, said the Parkash Singh Badal-led government should explain various aspects of unbundling at the meeting with the assurance that no section of the population in the state would be adversely affected as that was the only way to resolve the situation which was getting tense with each passing day.

Parminder said there were apprehensions that the state government would bill farmers for the power supply to the tube wells and reduction in the number of units of free power supplied to Dalit households on the recommendation of the Sukhbir-Kalia committee on fiscal management.