300 units of free electricity to Goa households if AAP wins, says Kejriwal

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal addressed a press conference during his two days visit to Goa. He said each family in Goa will get up to 300 units of electricity free per month if Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is voted to power in the state Assembly elections, due in February next year.

Unveiling four “guarantees”, the AAP national convener promised to waive all the old electricity bills if his party gets a chance to rule the coastal state.

“Every family will get up to 300 units of electricity free per month. We will start on a clean slate. Once the AAP government is formed in Goa, 87 per cent of consumers will start getting a zero electricity bill,” he told a press conference on the last day of his two-day visit to Goa.Kejriwal also promised free electricity to farmers in the state.

“If people in Delhi can get free electricity, then why not free power for people in Goa,” he said. Despite Goa being a power-surplus state, there are frequent power-cuts in the coastal state, he added.

Kejriwal met Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) chief Sudin Dhavalikar at a city hotel on Tuesday, sparking buzz that the two parties could deliberate on a possible alliance or an arrangement ahead of the state elections in early 2022.

Kejriwal, who is staying at a hotel in the Dona Paula locality of the capital city, spent most of the day holding a series of meetings with the local party leaders. In between, he also met the Dhavalikar brothers, Ramkrishna “Sudin” Dhavalikar and his younger brother Pandurang “Deepak” Dhavalikar, who play the lead role in the MGP

Sudin Dhavalikar insisted his meeting with Kejriwal was just a courtesy call. “There is nothing on that as yet. This was just a courtesy visit,” Sudin Dhavalikar said to repeated questions about speculation around his meeting with Kejriwal.

“There is nothing about an alliance. We discussed the good work he has done and the good work I have done with regard to water supply in Goa,” Sudin said.

“For a long time we had not met each other… now for two months because of corona we had not met. He had even come to Goa once (recently) but we couldn’t meet. I was supposed to go to Delhi but I didn’t get the time,” he signed off.