New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party, which is protesting at Janata Mantar in New Delhi against inflated electricity and water bills, said it will deliver 10,50,000 letters to the Chief Minister's residence on Sunday. The letters, addressing various issues in the city, have been written by the people of Delhi to the Sheila Dikshit government.
AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal is very happy with the response of the people and has said if his party will come to power in the 2013 elections, it will provide electricity at half the rate. "Out of 10.5 lakh people, let's assume 2 lakh people are not paying bills. It is a big number, it is a beginning. The awareness has been generated, The public has come together. Slowly and steadily people are taking fear out of their hearts," he said.
Few days back, Kejriwal had fasted for 15 days demanding reduction in water and electricity tariffs.
...
more
02:46 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party, which is protesting at Janata Mantar in New Delhi against inflated electricity and water bills, said it will deliver 10,50,000 letters to the Chief Minister's residence on Sunday. The letters, addressing various issues in the city, have been written by the people of Delhi to the Sheila Dikshit government. AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal is very happy with the response of the people and...
02:46 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday threatened to march to Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's residence on next Sunday if her government does not receive over 10 lakh letters refusing to pay "inflated" power and water bills. In a letter to Dikshit, AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal said they will organise a gathering of thousands at Jantar Mantar on April 28 and requested her to sent her officials...
06:29 PM, Apr 23, 2013
It is Day 11 of Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal's fast against inflated power and water bills in Delhi. The AAP leader has lost 7 kgs during his fast, but his vitals are normal. ...
01:22 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal's fast against Delhi's power tariff has entered the tenth day on Monday. The Delhi Police stopped the party's rally near Pragati Maidan on Monday. ...
02:42 PM, Apr 01, 2013
As Arvind Kejriwal's indefinite fast against "inflated" power bills entered the ninth day on Sunday, his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said it will deliver on Monday over 6.38 lakh letters it collected from Delhiites to Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit urging her to cut power tariff. ...
12:27 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Social activist Anna Hazare has appealed to Aam Admi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal to call off his fast. Hazare met his former Team Anna colleague at a Delhi slum on Friday. ...
11:49 PM, Mar 29, 2013
Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal's fast has entered the seventh day on Friday. The activist-turned-politician has been on a fast against Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and inflated electricity bills in the capital. ...
09:05 AM, Mar 29, 2013
As Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal enters fourth day of his indefinite fast against "illegal" electricity and water bills in Delhi, the turnout of people in Sundernagri, where he is holding what he calls a "civil disobedience movement", remains thin. While there has been a departure in strategy with most volunteers focussing on 264 wards in Delhi, the question is, did Kejriwal ask for too much when...
08:40 AM, Mar 26, 2013
It is a nightmare for Andhra Pradesh residents who are puzzled why they are being charged double this month for the same amount of power consumption as the last. ...
07:40 AM, Dec 14, 2012
New Delhi: The man whose power connection was reconnected by anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal bowed to the law after he sold off his television set to take a loan and pay his bill dues. Roshan Sharma said, "My family and I were being harassed. So I sold our TV and took a loan to pay our Rs 4500-bill." FIRs have been filed against the Delhi households whose power connections Kejriwal...
09:09 AM, Oct 10, 2012
New Delhi: Social activist Arvind Kejriwal on Monday protested at the office of Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) against inflated electricity bills. Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vijay Goel, who was already present at the protest venue, gheraoed the Chairman of the DERC, PD Sudhakar. They demanded that the electricity price be reduced and new tenders be issued. Responding to a query, Goel said that Kejriwal was welcome to...
02:35 PM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: In his run-up to the Delhi Assembly elections, anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal took on the Delhi government on Sunday, burning electricity bills, which he said were inflated, in Satyam Puram area of Jharoda Kalan. It is an unauthorised colony where Kailash Sharma, a middle aged shop keeper died of a heart attack as he tried to retrieve his meter from the hand of a Delhi Police enforcement team....
03:21 PM, Oct 07, 2012
New Delhi: A defiant anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal will take to the streets again on Sunday and is expected to burn inflated electricity bills in the capital again. Kejriwal is taking on the Delhi government over inflated electricity bills and will continue his campaign for Delhi Assembly Elections by burning electricity bills simultaneously at four different places in the capital on Sunday. After fulfilling his promise of restoring the electric...
07:28 AM, Oct 07, 2012
New Delhi: Activist Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday launched a 'bijli-paani satyagraha' in New Delhi to protest against 'inflated' power and water bills and hike in tariffs by restoring electricity connection to the household of a labourer which was disconnected for non-payment of bills. The protest was launched at Tigri Colony on Saturday morning when Kejriwal and his supporters restored the power connection of the labourer, who claimed that he got...
03:34 PM, Oct 06, 2012
New Delhi: Live updates: 11.40 am: Protesters burn electricity bills. Arvind Kejriwal calls it a 'bijli paani satyagraha' against inflated electricity and water bills. "The Congress government has created anarchy in Delhi. How will a poor man who earns Rs 9,000 pay a bill of Rs 15,000?" asks Kejriwal. 10.30 am: Asking everyone to unite against corruption, anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal says, "Everyone will have to be fearless. We have...
10:40 AM, Oct 06, 2012
New Delhi: Anti-corruption activist and India Against Corruption (IAC) member Arvind Kejriwal will on Saturday launch his campaign for the Delhi Assembly elections and his stir against the inflated power bills in the capital. He is expected to kick off his campaign against soaring electricity bills by restoring the power connection of a daily wage earner, who had approached him for help after being unable to pay his bills. Kejriwal...
07:25 AM, Oct 06, 2012
Sena workers are asking people not to pay high electricity bills. ...
12:20 PM, Jun 25, 2009
The party has asked consumers not to pay their electricity bills. ...
01:22 PM, Jun 24, 2009
