People started committing suicide over inflated power bills: Maheshinder Singh Grewal

LUDHIANA: Ridiculing the claims of the Punjab government about providing debt relief to the farmers and having generated jobs in the last two years, senior Akali leader and party candidate from Ludhiana parliamentary constituency Maheshinder Singh Grewal alleged that people have started committing suicide for their inability to pay the inflated power bills.
Speaking at a public meeting organized in the Dakha assembly segment here on Tuesday, Grewal referred to recent reports where a person had committed suicide after receiving inflated electricity bill. "Inflated electricity bills are no exception and the government is turning a blind eye towards it”, he alleged, while asking as what happened to the cheap power at the rate Rs 5 per unit promised by the Congress party before coming to power.
The Akali leader also questioned the claims of the government over providing debt relief to the farmers. “While the common farmer is suffering, the Congress government resorted just to pick and choose for their public shows of debt relief disbursement”, he said.
Grewal alleged that the state government had failed on all fronts and all the promises it had made to the people. “They always blamed us for the rise in the drug pedalling but are now either blissfully ignorant or have deliberately turned a blind eye towards the drug trade in the state”, he claimed, while alleging that the drugs are freely available much contrary to the claims of the government.
The Akali-BJP candidate also took a jibe at his Congress rival Ravneet Singh Bittu for claiming that he was ready to sacrifice his life for the sake of peace in Punjab. “Punjab neither needs any sacrifice anymore nor the hollow rhetoric, what Punjab needs is jobs and revival of economy and let you tell people of Ludhiana what you have done for that”, he asked Bittu, while telling him that he cannot continue to fool people with hoax emotional outbursts to cover up his inefficiency and failures.