Kejriwal, Others Burn Power Bills in Delhi

New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal and other members of India Against Corruption (IAC) staged protests across the capital by burning electricity bills and also restored power connections of two households, a day after they launched 'bijli-paani satyagraha'.

They also visited the house of a person who died of heart attack after being threatened by private power distribution company (discom) officials to pay chalan (fine) of 1 lakh during a raid at his house suspecting power theft.

IAC launched the 'bijli-paani satyagraha' to protest against alleged inflated power and water bills by restoring a household's power connection in south Delhi's Tigri colony that had been cut for the non-payment of a bill that ran into thousands of rupees.

"People in 62 assemblies and 114 wards in Delhi burnt their electricity bills during protest against the steep hike in electricity tariff," IAC said in a statement Sunday.

Besides Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Gopal Rai and Kumar Vishwas also joined people and protested by burning bills in Bawana, Mukherjee Nagar, Mahipalpur and Laxmi Nagar.

On Monday, they will protest outside Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) office in south Delhi.

Kejriwal's protest began with the visit to the house of Kailash Chand, 65, who died of a heart attack following a raid at his house in Najafgarh.