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JAMMU: While the State Government claims that it has supplied additional electricity to the Jammu province, power crisis in the region has deepened as heat wave-hit areas continued to witness long and unscheduled power outages, leaving consumers fuming.
This was stated by Shiv Sena Hindustan State President Rajesh Kesri while addressing media persons here on Friday.
Kesri said that Kashmir-based leaderships had been discriminating Jammu and Ladakh regions in every sector since long. Power crisis was part of it and the prevailing situation in the Jammu region was created by the State Government itself to siphon off more funds from the Centre, he added. He said the people of Jammu had been subjected to grave hardships in scorching heat despite the fact that they contributed more than double to the annual power bills. “The people had been paying the price of a fault which they never committed,” he said, adding that, “It is ironical that the State had been witnessing power crisis at a time when it supplies electricity to other states, he added.
Kesri further said that the department should explain as to why the fully metered areas have been subjected to long and unscheduled power cuts.
Earlier, the Chief Minister used to give an excuse of illegal connections for power crisis, but the people had been facing the worst power crisis in Jammu after 100 per cent metering in their areas.
