Report by Kamgar Ekta Committee (KEC) correspondent
A candle march was taken out in Chandigarh on 7th December against the privatization of Chandigarh Electricity Department. People from various villages and farmers’ organizations participated in the protest march. The specialty of this march was the participation of children and women in large numbers. They were carrying placards of Stop Privatization of the Department in their hands and were raising slogans to make people aware. They appealed to all the people to join the campaign to stop the privatization of electricity.
Members of Yuva Kisan Union, Valmiki Dharm Samaj Chandigarh, Pendu Sangharsh Samiti, Tarksangat Samiti Chandigarh and other organizations lit candles and said that if electricity goes into private hands, then they will have to live by lighting candles again.
The President of Yuva Kisan Ekta said that under no circumstances will electricity be allowed to go into private hands. He announced that this protest march will be organized in Chandigarh every evening.
The president of the Gramin Sangharsh Samiti said that privatisation is being imposed on the people by the administration. No one in Chandigarh wants electricity to be handed over to private hands. The government is deliberately going to hand over the power sector to the capitalists, which they will not tolerate. People will come out of the villages and take to the streets and get this decision of the government overturned.
A city resident woman said that it has become very difficult to run the household right now. If electricity also becomes private, the company will increase the price. In such a situation, it will become difficult for people to live. Inflation is already very high. Everyone will have to come out against this move, only then will this privatisation stop.