The Centre had sent the proposed amendments to the Electricity Act to the states for their feedback on September China PPR FITTING Suppliers 7."Forward trading will mean the big people will gamble and the common people will have to bear the entire burden of generation, speculation, supply as well as the corruption of the power companies," Mr Kejriwal said."I will write to all the chief ministers and personally meet those from the non-BJP-ruled states against the amendments that are very dangerous and draconian. Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal lashed out at the BJP-led Central government on Saturday, saying the amendments proposed by it to the Electricity Act, 2003 were "very dangerous" and aimed at benefitting "a few power companies" at the cost of the poor people and farmers of the country.

The proposed amendment bill would put an end to cross-subsidy, injecting a steep two-to-five times hike in the power tariff across the board, so that even the middle class, let alone the farmers and poor, would find it difficult to afford electricity, he charged.The AAP will launch a movement against the amendment bill so that its passage in the Rajya Sabha could be stopped, he added. This move is aimed at benefitting the big power companies that are known to be close to the prime minister," the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief said. "We will go the people, telling them that (Prime Minister Narendra) Modiji is sold to the power companies," Mr Kejriwal said.

The BJP government in the state had succeeded in containing the Maoist menace, Shah said, addressing a tribal convention at Narharpur in the insurgency-hit Kanker district. We broke that nexus and cracked down on Naxals. I have no hesitation in saying that the earlier Congress government (before the BJP came to power in the state in 2003) had forged ties with Naxals to stay in power..When Chhattisgarh came into existence, it was dubbed as one of the "Bimaru" (backwa-rd/sick) states and despite being in power for the initial three years, the Congress did nothing to boost its economic growth, he alleged."Chhattisgarh once reverberated with the sound of bullets.