Punjab chief minister (CM) Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday announced that he will lead a relay dharna of MLAs at Delhi’s Rajghat on November 4 to highlight the state’s power crisis and critical essential supplies situation amid the Centre’s adamant refusal to allow movement of goods trains.
The CM said he has decided to hold a symbolic relay dharna at Rajghat to bring the state’s grim situation to the Centre’s notice. Since Section 144 was in place in Delhi, MLAs will go from Punjab Bhawan to the `samadhi’ of the Father of the Nation in batches of four, he said, adding that he will lead the first batch at 10.30am.
Captain Amarinder reiterated his appeal to MLAs of other Punjab parties to also join the dharnas in the interest of the state, which was facing a dire situation at present with the last of the private power plants also shutting down today. GVK has announced it will close down operations at 3pm today since coal stocks had complete run out. The public and other private power plants in the state have already shut down. Read here:
The CM said, “The situation is grim as the state has run out of coal, urea/DAP
and other essential supplies due to the decision of the Railways not to ply
goods trains even after the farmers eased their blockade to allow such
movement.”
“With its bid for power purchase not cleared for
today, the state is facing extreme power shortage, all agricultural and
vegetable supplies have been curtailed, and high loss feeders power supply had
been cut,” he said.
