"I am against the privatization of electricity. The department opposed it firmly before the regulator, and we will go to the very end against it": Energy Minister Anil Vij


"Ensuring that one person has one vote is the Election Commission’s job, and the Election Commission is fulfilling its duty": Anil Vij


Chandigarh, October 21— Haryana’s Energy, Transport and Labour Minister, Sh. Anil Vij, responded to questions about the parallel licence granted to a private company for electricity distribution in Gurugram and Nuh, and the opposition to it by electricity employees. He said that “I am myself against the privatization of electricity, which is why my department had strongly opposed it before the Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission. This is on record in writing, and anyone can obtain the relevant documents to see what we had said.”


He said that “The regulatory commission has given its decision, and we will appeal against it. We will take this matter all the way to the end.” He added that today he had called the employees’ leaders to his office for a meeting at 3 p.m. He had previously also met and spoken with the employees. “If there is a better solution, it should be presented, and we will accept it,” he asserted.


Sh. Vij was speaking to media persons today.


On the opposition’s question that the BJP should state how many infiltrators were identified in the SIR (Special Intensive Revision), Energy Minister Anil Vij said, “Ask this question to the Election Commission; the BJP does not prepare voter lists.” He said the opposition had completely lost its way, adding that the Election Commission prepares and gives parties an opportunity to correct the voter lists.


Raising a question, he said, “Now, if someone dies or gets married, should their name not be removed? If someone comes from outside, should their name not be added? Yet they keep blaming the Election Commission. Whenever a revision takes place under the law, one month is given afterward. The parties making these statements either have no workers or are incompetent. Otherwise, workers go door to door to inform people that new voter lists are being prepared. This is happening after 23 years; since then, how many people have died and how many votes have been removed? This is the Election Commission’s job", he said.


He said that many people had gotten married and many employees had been transferred. “Ensuring that one person has one vote is the Election Commission’s job, and the Election Commission is fulfilling its duty. These are people who did not do their own work properly and cannot bear to see others doing their work properly.”