In Madhya Pradesh, electricity companies are installing smart meters. Electricity companies argue that smart meters will ensure correct billing, electricity theft can be stopped, which will benefit consumers, but Congress does not trust the government and the electricity company and is opposing the installation of smart meters. In this sequence, Congress demonstrated in Gwalior today.
Congress workers demonstrated strongly today on the call of Gwalior City District Congress Committee, Congress says that the BJP government of the state is wasting hard-earned money and harassing the people, Congress leaders gathered at the district office and marched on foot in the scorching afternoon to reach Roshni Ghar and expressed their anger by raising slogans there.
District President Surendra Yadav said that the people are getting troubled due to the anti-people policies of the BJP’s Modi government sitting at the Center and the Mohan Yadav government of the state. He said that because of Energy Minister Pradyuman Singh Tomar, smart meters are being forcibly installed in every house, in fact these are not smart meters but meters sucking the blood of the people.
MLA Dr. Satish Singh Sikarwar said that the BJP government is a commission government, hence for the sake of commission, they are uprooting good meters and installing smart meters, this government is robbing the public’s pockets and sucking the blood of the public.
Congress MLA said that this is a waste of public money. Congress will continue to protest until these are stopped. MLA Dr. Satish Singh Sikarwar alleged that the Energy Minister is not installing smart meters in his assembly constituency while he is getting them installed in Gwalior East and Gwalior South Assembly. Why is this discrimination happening? He said that more cases of theft are being registered in these two assemblies and recovery is also more but where the Energy Minister lives, everything is forgiven, which Congress will not tolerate now.
