CAG report of Delhi power companies (AAP was right, others were wrong)

The Aam Aadmi Party came to power in Delhi by promising lower electricity and power bills. AAP claimed that the electricity tariffs of Delhi are highly inflated and they are designed to rob the people of Delhi and help the power companies make big gains. 

It all began with the formation of the AAM AADMI PARTY, when it became obvious that the IAC movement had to take a political turn and that IAC must send honest people to the Assemblies and Parliament to win the war against corruption. 

At AAP, Arvind Kejriwal, the party convener decided to begin with the state of Delhi. Back then Delhiites had to fork out a good sum of money for water and electricity, the meters used to be faulty as well and people ended up paying way more than what they should. People from the poorer sections of the society were badly affected due to this as water and electricity are basic and extremely vital necessities. 

This video shows the descriptions given by people about the troubles they were facing with their inflated electricity and water bills. 

In March 2013 Arvind Kejriwal sat on a hunger strike protesting against this bills and demanded a CAG audit of all the power companies. The the Delhi Government headed by CM Sheila Dixit gave no heed to the demand. In fact AAP volunteers were arrested and beaten up by Delhi Police.

In the elections that were held in December 2013, AAP on its election debut got 28 of the 70 Vidhansabha seats. BJP that had got 32 seats refused to form the government and Congress that was reduced to a mere 8 seats, went to LG and announced unconditional support for AAP. AAP after doing a public referendum decided to form the government with an external Congress support. In the first tenure itself, the prices of electricity was reduced to half and water was made free up to 20,000 litres per month per household. A CAG audit of discoms was ordered by CM Arvind Kejriwal. 

However the government lasted 49 days, it resigned after it failed to pass the Janlokpal bill. A few months after AAP resigned, the high electricity and water prices were restored by the cunning Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung. Jung delayed the Delhi State elections for many months and dissolved the Assembly, only when it was obvious that Delhi High Court will most probably give orders for dissolution of the Assembly. 

In Feb 2015 Assembly Elections AAP came back to power with 67 seats, Congress did not open their account and BJP got only about 3 seats. The CAG audit of discoms, that was stopped by Najeeb Jung was again ordered by Arvind Kejriwal. Yesterday the CAG audit report on discoms stated that the power bills of Delhi were inflated by Rs 8000 cr. 

The CAG report vindicates what Arvind Kejriwal and AAP was saying till now. This also shows that the TV and print media journalists, panelists who defended the high electricity prices of Delhi were actually paid agents of the discoms and they simply told lies to the public.  

Now the power companies will have to payback the Rs 8000cr to the power consumers of Delhi with interest and pay the fine that will be imposed on them. 

Congratulations and a big thanks to Arvind Kejriwal and AAP. 

Arvind Kejriwal and Narendra Modi (On 16th Aug, 2015)

Today 16th August, 2015 happens to be the birthday of Arvind Kejriwal. The Delhi Chief Minister is definitely the most popular politician in the country. Throughout the day the social media was full of happy birthday messages for Arvind, also there were a few hate messages from the opponents. The Prime Minister tweeted from UAE to express his birthday wishes and AK took this opportunity to express his desire to meet the PM and brief him about the situation of Delhi. The screenshot of the twitter conversation  is shown below with the the URL:

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Arvind Kejriwal had earlier tried to seek an appointment with Modiji however he did not get one (Modiji of course had time to meet his abusive social media trolls). 

The law and order situation of Delhi has become worse because of bad policing. A girl was murdered in broad daylight, she was stabbed multiple times. The murderers actually earlier teased and harassed the girl, when the girl filed a police complaint, the miscreants took revenge by murdering the girl. 

The Delhi Police is lax because it is under the central government and neither the Prime Minister or the Home Minister has time to keep a tab on DPs work, as a result there is no one overlooking the functioning of Delhi Police and that's why there is rise in the crime graph of Delhi. 

While Arvind Kejriwal did not get a chance to meet the Prime Minister, he had to run TV advertisements to appeal to the Prime Minister to hand over the reins of Delhi Police to Delhi Government. Here is the video of the advertisement: 

The Delhi Police get its salary from tax that is paid by the people of Delhi, so protection of people of Delhi should be its prime duty. However, as you can hear in the above advertisement, its system has gone bad so the PM either has to spare an hour a week for Delhi Police or initiate the process of handing over Delhi Police to Delhi Government and complete it fast, so that people of Delhi can live in a peaceful low crime environment. 

Our Prime Minster Narendra Modi is a man who has virtually left his family, his wife exists only on paper. He is 65 and he won't live forever. But as the PM of this country he has this golden opportunity to change the nation and lives of millions of people.

In the first 15 months of his 60 month regime, he has only worked for the crony corporates while ordinary people are suffering because of high levels of corruption and price rise. Nothing is done for the ordinary people of the country even health and education budgets of centre, which is already low as a percentage of GDP, have been further slashed by 14% and 15% respectively. 

If he keeps doing the same things that he has done in the last 15 months, then he would go down in the history of India as the worst Prime Minister ever. 

He still has the time and opportunity to work for the people, make amends for what he did wrong in the last 15 months, work to eliminate corruption and bring back black money, that would change the lives of millions of Indians living below poverty line. If Narendra Modi does this he will go down in the history of the country as the best Prime Minister ever, history of the nation will remember him as a hero.

The choice belongs to Modiji he has time in his hand, I sincerely pray and wish that some enlightenment dawns upon him and he starts working for the people of the country.   

Arvind Kejriwal's letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi

This is Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal's letter to the Prime Minister. 

I sincerely hope that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other parliamentarians will listen to Arvind's request and hand over Delhi Police's control to Delhi Government. 

The Delhi Police Commissioner seems to have no shame whatsoever.





The following is the English translation of this letter:

Respected Mr Narendramodiji,

Namaskar(Hello)! A few days ago. A girl in Delhi was murdered, she was stabbed 32 times. Allegation is that few men used to tease her. I and Manish (Sisodia) went to meet the family members of the girl. We met the people of that area. We went to the nearby by lanes. People were very scared over there. They said that they cannot get the sight of police in the nearby area. 

This kind of incidences are increasing in Delhi. The law and order situation has collapsed. Especially women are feeling insecure. 

With folded hands I want to make this appeal to you, Sir you know very well that Delhi Police is not under the direct control of Delhi Government. By law , Delhi Police comes under you and you are not able to spare time for it at all since you are the Prime Minister of the nation, you have to take care of the entire nation. That's why Delhi Police is completly off the hook . No one is controlling it. 

Sir , it is not that all police officers are bad. There are good people in Delhi Police as well. But their system is very bad and they themselves are sad. 

Sir , I have small and polite request to you. Either you must spare one hour a week for the law and order situation of Delhi, make Delhi Police answerable. Meet the people of Delhi or hand over the control of Delhi Police to us. We along with the public will rectify the system of Delhi Police. 

And one more thing, the place where Meenakshi was murdered , Anand Parvat. People over there are very scared. Please make sufficient arrangements of police force over there. Thank you very much.

Yours,
Arvind Kejriwal

AAP'S Delhi Dialogue for Youth

AAP unveils its agenda for the youth & students of Delhi

·         Student loan for college going students will be easy and hassle free

·         20 new colleges will be opened in outer Delhi

·         55,000 job vacancies in Delhi government, boards and corporations to be immediately filled-up

·         Degree, Income, WiFi. Aam Aadmi Party Laayi

·         Delhi will be a drug-free national capital

Delhi Dialogue launched its first round of public meetings on Saturday afternoon (November 15 2014), at the historic Jantar Mantar, where the youth of Delhi were brimming with ideas and confidence for the conference followed by an evening of musical concert.  

This conference focused on issues related to youth, which were broadly divided into sectors/focus areas such as jobs, employment, skills, sports, culture, art and technology.

Over the past two weeks, the Aam Aadmi Party’s Delhi Dialogue team led by Ashish Khetan, Meera Sanyal and Adarsh Shastri met with stakeholders on these issues ranging from bureaucrats, government employees and elected representatives, businesses, non-profits, journalists and other interesting persons with expertise.

They also engaged with several student groups and leadership organizations, along with youth brigades. Based on these roundtables, the AAP has developed a 5-point agenda plan that was unveiled for the youth at this event. However, this list is not set in stone and is open to amendments, revision and discussion. 

At the event, elaborate talks on the current status and future of various issues mentioned above were delivered by party thought leaders including Yogendra Yadav, Meera Sanyal, Adarsh Shastri and independent idealogues like Shri Atul Bhatnagar, COO of the National Skill Development Corporation and Shri Mahesh Murthy, a renowned venture capitalist. 

Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal concluded the first half of the programme by laying down the slogan for the youth – “Degree, Income, WiFi. Aam Aadmi Party Laayi”.

The following big agenda items were announced: 

1.   Higher Education Guarantee Scheme: Students passing out from Delhi schools who wish to pursue any diploma or degree course after class 12, should be given a loan by banks with only one criteria, the securing of admission. The loan should cover their tuition fees as well as the cost of the stay. The loan repayment should have a moratorium for the period of education and one year thereafter. No student will be rejected a loan.

2.   AAP will open 20 new Delhi colleges on the outskirts of Delhi by creating partnerships with our local villages.

According to the National Sample Survey and various other estimates, there are about 3-5 lakh unemployed people in Delhi. However, this estimate is far too low considering the many manifestations of disguised unemployment and underemployment. To make an attempt to crack this issue: 

1.   AAP will fill 55,000 immediate vacancies in the Delhi government and the autonomous bodies of GNCT Delhi.

2.  AAP will promote vocational education and skill-development of Delhi's youth in schools and colleges, to bridge the real skill-gap in Delhi. We will create the Delhi Skill Mission that will enable the skilling of 1 lakh/year for the first two years, ramped up to 5 lakh/year for the next three years of an AAP government.

3.   AAP will create an ecosystem to empower private industry to create more jobs and grow at a faster trajectory than the current projections for Delhi job numbers.

4.   The government will help transform invention to innovation by setting up technological incubators in universities and colleges.

5.  AAP will create innovative and private startup accelarators to provide support to entrepreneurs. We will start with providing 3 million square feet as part of the pilot test project.

6.  We will create sports facilities, infrastructure and effective human resource management for athletes, especially from Delhi’s rural and urban villages.

7.  We will utilize and open up Delhi’s sports stadiums and complexes to its youth and also open government school fields and facilities to every child to play.

8.  We will make Delhi a drug-free city

9.  We will make Delhi a wifi-enabled city.

However, the evening did not fade away into oblivion with some expert speeches and political agenda. A wonderful evening of entertainment and comedy was created by Bhagwant Mann, Raghu Ram along with Jasleen, Swaratma and Vimlendu Jha.

http://aamaadmiparty.org/delhi-dialogue-launched-by-unveiling-the-agenda-for-youth-students-of-delhi

Kejriwal Fir Se

So after keeping Delhi in limbo for months the Lieutenet Governor was forced to announce the dissolution of the Delhi assembly(since in the next hearing the court may have ordered the dissolution of the assembly) . Last year in February when the Delhi Janlokpal bill was tabled int he Assembly, BJP and Congress joined hands to stop the bill from getting passed. Arvind Kejriwal had promised earlier that Janlokpal Bill would be passed if AAP came to power and incase they were unable to pass the bill, then all the MLA's of AAP will resign together . What AAP said, AAP did Arvind Kejriwal and all the other 26 MPs resigned .

        In Delhi Assembly elections held last year although the single largest party was BJP with 32 seats the first timers Aam Aadmi Party had won 28 seats . The Congress was left with mere 8 seats. The Congress by itself went to LG and announced unconditional support to AAP if it forms the government. So AAP did a public referendum and most people were in favour of AAP forming a government with Congress's support.

       The tenure of AAP in Delhi was rather short but it was full of action . In the first few days the electricity rates were halved ,then upto 20000 lts of water was made free per household per month. A call center was started where people could report  if any govt official asked for bribe. Some govt officials were removed when they were found asking for bribes. In fact a TV channel did a sting operation on which some officials some of them asked for bribes . Manish Sisodiya suspended them right then and there.

      The Sheila Dixit government of Delhi swindled all the money that was allocated for building Rain Baseras for the homeless especially in the biting Delhi cold. When AAP came to power it was  December and in December - January the night temperatures of Delhi can be as low as 4 or 5 degree celcius. The AAP govt acted briskly immediately arranged for Porta Cabinets and some old unused buses  were used as night shelters for the the homeless.

      The fact that the electricity companies were benefiting from tariffs set by the Sheila government can be gauged by the fact that when it was announced that an audit  would be done of the power companies by the CAG, the power companies moved to court to stop the audit. When they failed in high court they moved to supreme court. This shows that there is something wrong and Kejriwal is right when he alleges that the power companies have been benefited by the Sheila Government and they were hands in gloves.

      There were reports from friends living in Delhi that the roadside stall owners actually lowered the rate of their services during AAP's tenure, when asked for reason the person said that because of AAP's government the Delhi Police was scared to take bribes and this lead to savings. He decided to pass  it on to the consumers which resulted in him getting more customers. A friend reported that a rickshawalla actually charged less than what he usually charged the reason he gave was because of the AAP government he no longer has to pay the Rs 5000 hafta to police anymore.

     A few months ago e-rickshaws was banned by Delhi High Court , this e- rickshaws cannot be made legal till necessary amendment are made in the Motor Vehicles Act. In Delhi over 100,000 people had invested in e-rickshaws. They are from poor families and the livelihoods of their families depend on this. However the government did not show any urgency in amending the motor vehicles act. The result is the e-rickshaw drivers are not able to earn their livelihood. The government is elected by people so that it works for it and improves their standard of life . Unfortunately in India the ignorance of masses have resulted in corrupt and criminal people coming to power. This people rob the nation and leave the masses in poverty.

     The nation needs to wake up, Delhi needs to wake and don't let this opportunity go. If Delhiites want to live in a corruption free environment . If the people of Delhi wants a government that is committed to work for their well being. If the people of Delhi want their daughters and sisters  to be safe in the city and if they want an excellent future of their Kids then Delhi must vote for #AAP . Since Modi's BJP govt has continued the loot of the nation, it promised acche din but is doing exactly the opposite.

Enjoy this song sung by Vishal Dadlani

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDJIbLEoIGs