Electricity shoppers conference to be held in Bengaluru on October 26

All India Electricity Consumers’ Association (AIECA) has organised South India zone electrical energy shoppers’ conference in Bengaluru on October 26, opposing privatisation of energy sector and to press for numerous calls for.

Addressing press individuals in Dharwad on October 13, AIECA State unit secretary Jnanamurthy mentioned that the conference in Bengaluru was a part of a collection of conventions being held in 4 zones of India. The conference will probably be held at Gandhi Bhavan in Bengaluru.

Mr. Jnanamurthy mentioned that representatives of electrical energy shoppers from Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu and Telangana would take part within the zonal conference. “The goal of the conference is to strengthen the combat towards privatisation of energy sector and likewise to oppose good metres in Karnataka,” he mentioned.

Mr. Jnanamurthy mentioned that through the historic farmers’ agitation in Delhi, farmers had strongly opposed the three draconian farm legal guidelines and likewise the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020. The Union Government had assured farmers that the electrical energy invoice could be withdrawn, however had not fulfilled its promise. Expressing solidarity with the electrical energy shoppers, representatives of AIKKMS (All India Krishak Khet Mazdoor Sanghathan) would even be collaborating within the conference, he mentioned.

The all India president of AIECA Swapan Ghosh would inaugurate the conference, wherein a number of activists and leaders from numerous organisations could be addressing the individuals, he mentioned.

Mr. Jnanamurthy mentioned that whereas energy is folks’s proper and important service, the federal government is bent on making it a commodity of enterprise, which must be strongly opposed. The new invoice is aimed toward serving to corporates and personal corporations, and all of the State Governments are additionally supporting it. The conference is being held to strengthen folks’s motion towards it, he mentioned.