SHIMLA: BJP Chief Spokesperson Randhir Sharma said the present government has increased the electricity rates instead of providing 300 units of electricity for free to the people in the state.
He said that the BJP opposes the hike in electricity rates.
Sharma said that when the assembly elections were going on, the leaders of the Congress party had given a guarantee of providing 300 units of free electricity to the people of Himachal Pradesh.
But this guarantee has evaporated and in return the rates of electricity have been increased.
Earlier, the government had increased the rates of diesel by Rs. 3 and now by increasing the rates of electricity, it has put a burden on the public, he charged.
He said Congress minister Jagat Negi had said that the government cannot do anything in this, it is the decision of the Regulatory Commission.
But let us tell that the government could have saved the public from this burden by giving its own grant.
Even during the BJP government, the issue of such increase had come to the fore many times.
But the BJP government has always given grants to the Regulatory Commission, this has been providing relief to the public.
"We will raise this issue in the Vidhansabha as well as we strongly oppose this hike", he claimed.