Yavatmal: The district unit of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) has lodged complaint with city police on Wednesday against the state energy minister Nitin Raut accusing him of cheating electricity consumers across the state.
A delegation under the leadership of district chief Deva Shivramwar and secretary Anil Hamdapure met superintendent of police Dilip Bhujbal Patil and submitted a memorandum urging him to register an FIR against Raut for doling out false assurances to Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) consumers of providing concession during the lockdown period. The leaders claimed that Raut has later disowned the promise made publicly.
βIt is a deliberate attempt to cheat people and cause mental torture,β said Hamdapure. He has warned of launching a mass agitation across the state if the government refuses to revise the exorbitant rates and the energy bills imposed on the consumers arbitrarily when they were facing unprecedented financial crunch due to Coronavirus pandemic. Many of them have been rendered jobless or their salary is reduced to 25 to 50%. Under such circumstances, imposing huge energy bills can never be acceptable and it is arbitrary and unjust,β said Shivramwar, after lodging the complaint.