Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 27: Mission Statehood Jammu Kashmir president Sunil Dimple on Monday led a strong protest in Jammu against the Government’s move to introduce the prepaid electricity metering system in the Union Territory. The protest was held at Janipur High Court Road, where demonstrators raised slogans against the administration, alleging that the new policy would burden poor families.
Addressing the protestors, Dimple accused the Government of failing to fulfil its promises of providing 200 units of free electricity, 12 LPG cylinders, and double ration to households. He said that instead of delivering on these commitments, the administration was now compelling citizens to make advance payments for electricity through prepaid meters.
“The prepaid smart metering system is an attempt to loot the poor and extract money from families already struggling to make ends meet,” Dimple said, questioning how daily wage earners-who “earn in the morning to feed their families in the evening”-could afford such costs.
Dimple criticized the Government for “raising the salaries of MLAs while ignoring unemployed youth and the poor,” and accused it of betraying voters by going back on its election manifesto. He vowed to continue the agitation until the prepaid meter decision is rolled back.
Other Mission Statehood leaders, including Sudershan, Bram Dutt Sharma, Sanjay Sethi, Swarn Lal, Ashok Sharma, Vijay Virdi, S. Kala Singh, Deepak Kumar, Mohinder Kumar, Lohari .
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