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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial"><span style="line-height:1.6em">Maharashtra Congress MPs Sanjay Nirupam and Priya Dutt are planning to hold a protest seeking reduction in power tarriffs in Mumbai on Monday. They are expected to lead a protest march to the Reliance Energy office demanding a tariff subsidy for Mumbaikars. Congress leaders are seemed to be following Aap Aadmi Party&#39;s government in Delhi which has cut power tariff for two lower slabs. In a veiled attack on the Maharashtra government, Nirupam had threatened to launch an agitation if a decision is not taken by the state government to provide subsidy. He had attacked his own government in Maharashtra saying, &quot;If decision to provide subsidy is not taken by the government, I will launch an agitation.&quot;</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial">Nirupam had asked, &quot;If Delhi government can reduce the power tariff, then why can&#39;t it be done in Mumbai.&quot; He had written a letter to Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan in this regard asking him to implement a scheme similar to that brought by the AAP government in Delhi. Nirupam said the Maharashtra Cabinet should also follow Delhi by slashing power tariff by half.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial">&quot;Power tariff should be lowered. If Delhi Cabinet can pass such a populist scheme, why can&#39;t Chavan do the same,&quot; Nirupam had asked in his letter to the Chief Minister. Chavan had replied saying, &quot;GoM on power was constitued on November 19 and is already looking into the matter of providing further subsidy. Maharashtra government has already subsidised power for agriculture and power loom.&quot;</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial">The Congress leader had also called for investigation into cartelisation by private power companies to know whether the current electricity prices were justified. &quot;Both Tata and Reliance have got into cartelisation of power in Mumbai,&quot; he had claimed. Kejriwal had announced 50 per cent cut in power tariff and audit of power distribution companies in Delhi.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial">Source-On Request</span></span></span></p>