Haridwar: Annoyed over power outage, Congress MLA climbs poles, cuts electricity supply to officials' houses

Congress MLA Virendra Jati from Jhabreda in Haridwar district climbed electricity poles after he got annoyed over frequent power cuts and snapped the power supply to the houses of three of the department's officials.

A complaint was filed against the MLA at the Roorkee Civil Lines Police Station by the electricity department in this case, PTI reported.

The department's complaint against the lawmaker alleged that Jati cut the power lines without a proper shutdown, which could have led to a major accident.

Among the three whose power connection was snapped was the chief engineer of the power department.

On Tuesday, Jati came to Roorkee with his supporters, a ladder, and some cutting tools. He first climbed an electric pole outside the official residence of superintending engineer Vivek Rajput at the Boat Club and cut off the electricity connection to his house.

After this, the MLA reached the official residences of chief engineer Anupam Singh and executive engineer Vinod Pandey and cut their houses' power connection too.

The Congress MLA alleged that there have been unannounced power cuts for five to eight hours a day in his area, causing great distress to the public and significant business loss, PTI reported.

He said he had been raising the issue of power cuts with the department for 10 days, no heed was paid.

Jati said that the officials were in a bad state after just one hour of a power cut, while the public suffered for hours every day without electricity.