2 months ago
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Members of the Karnataka State Electricity Consumers Association and the All India Krishi Karmikara Sangathane (AIKKMS) staged a protestation seeking the withdrawal of what they called a regressive and anti-people Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2025.
Activists demanded that the authorities instrumentality steps to safeguard the nationalist energy organisation system, instead. During the protest, demonstrators burnt a transcript of the Bill.
The protesters demanded that the projected Bill should not beryllium introduced successful the existent league of Parliament. They said that the provisions of the projected Bill are regressive and harmful to the interests of employees, workers, energy consumers, farmers and small-scale industries crossed the country.
They said that the projected amendments promote privatisation and fragmentation of the energy organisation assemblage which volition earnestly harm the nationalist quality of energy services.
They demanded extortion of the nationalist ownership and nationalist inferior quality of the energy organisation strategy and clasp wide consultations with worker unions, user organisations and different stakeholders earlier proposing immoderate large changes successful the energy sector.
Leaders Gangadhar Badiger, Beeresh Salgar, Bhuvana Ballari, Deepa Dharwad, Sharanu Gonavar, Yogappa Jotepanavar and others were present.
