Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva on Wednesday accused the AAP led city government of looting the people of the national Capital by hiking electricity bills and alleged that with the support of government, power companies are collecting a huge amount from the people of Delhi in the form of Power Purchase Adjustment Charge (PPAC). Sachdev blamed the AAP government of not making any summer plan and said, "The Delhi Government did not make any arrangement to buy additional electricity in summer and did not even make a summer action plan for power management and when the heat reached its peak in April 2024, power cuts started after which Power Discom and Delhi Government started their game." He claimed that on the instructions of the Kejriwal government, BSES Rajdhani wrote a letter to the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) Secretary on April 25. Sachdeva alleged, "On the basis of the old circular, BSES Rajdhani stated that they are increasing the PPAC by 8.75 per cent from May 2024 to July 2024. Instead of taking permission from DERC for this, the power company implemented the new increase by giving a notice." Sachdeva claimed that the government and the discom have colluded and have expressed their desire to increase the PPAC by 8.75 to 43.79 per cent, due to which the bills of electricity consumers are increasing. Demanding an answer, he said, "Power Minister Atishi should tell whether the Power Discom has the right to increase the PPAC without the prior approval of DERC. If the government had made an agreement with Power Grid for May to July and bought electricity from Power Grid or surplus states, the prices would not have increased, but when it was time to make a power summer plan, the entire Kejriwal government was busy doing politics." South Delhi BJP MP Ramvir Singh Bidhuri said "This is the same Delhi government which was talking about giving 200 units of free electricity. The Kejriwal government allows a disaster to come in Delhi and then turns that disaster into an opportunity to loot. The Kejriwal government will loot even from jail." Senior BJP leader Arvinder Singh Lovely said, "Despite the promises of the Kejriwal government, the audit of electricity companies has not been done even after the last 10 years. Not only this, today due to the Delhi Chief Minister being in jail, the appointment of DERC members is not being done and the electricity companies are looting as per their will." Lovely showed the electricity bill of his house and said, "In my own bill, PPAC of more than 4,000 rupees has been imposed which will increase further from this month."

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