In January, Ashok Gehlot had introduced large subsidies on cooking gasoline.
Jaipur:
The Congress has tweaked its free electrical energy promise — which was massively profitable in Karnataka — for Rajasthan, which can have its meeting election by the top of this yr. Free electrical energy as much as 100 items and glued charge for the following 100 was Ashok Gehlot authorities’s announcement this night, which, the Chief Minister stated, is predicated on public suggestions.
“After observing inflation reduction camps and speaking to the general public, there was suggestions that there needs to be a slight change within the slab-wise exemption in electrical energy payments. Suggestions was additionally obtained from the general public concerning the gasoline surcharge within the electrical energy payments within the month of Could, on the premise of which a giant resolution has been taken,” reads a tough translation of Mr Gehlot’s tweet in Hindi.
महंगाई राहत शिविरों के अवलोकन व जनता से बात करने पर फीडबैक आया कि बिजली बिलों में मिलने वाली स्लैबवार छूट में थोड़ा बदलाव किया जाए.
– मई महीने में बिजली बिलों में आए फ्यूल सरचार्ज को लेकर भी जनता से फीडबैक मिला जिसके आधार पर बड़ा फैसला किया है.
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– 100 यूनिट प्रतिमाह तक बिजली… pic.twitter.com/z27tJRuyaf— Ashok Gehlot (@ashokgehlot51) Could 31, 2023
The large late night announcement got here on a day Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually launched the occasion’s marketing campaign from Ajmer with a pointy assault on the state Congress, accusing it of corruption and factionalism.
That is the Congress’s first massive ticket announcement since December, when Mr Gehlot had promised large subsidies on cooking gasoline. The costs have been slashed by greater than half to offer 12 cylinders a yr at Rs 500 every.
Final yr, the federal government had additionally launched a mega medical health insurance scheme, which presents free medical amenities as much as Rs 25 lakh at authorities hospitals. The minimal month-to-month pension has additionally been elevated to Rs 1,000 below the social safety scheme.
Forward of the Karnataka meeting election, the Congress had taken a leaf out of Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Occasion’s e book. The promise of free water and electrical energy, which had paid large electoral dividends to AAP in Delhi and Punjab, labored for the Congress in Karnataka too.
However studies say the tardiness in implementation is inflicting hiccups for the Siddaramaiah authorities. During the last weeks, farmers in a number of pockets have refused to pay energy payments, insisting that the discom brokers accumulate it from the state authorities.
The state BJP, which continues to be smarting over its defeat, is gleeful over the ruling occasion’s predicament. BJP MP Pratap Simha has urged folks to not pay electrical energy payments from June 1 if their consumption is beneath 200 items.