Bengal CM writes to PM to oppose placing 'anti-people' Electricity Bill in Parliament

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday shot a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to protest against the Centre’s move to place the "anti-people" Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020 in Parliament. Mamata urged the Prime Minister to refrain from proceeding with the legislation.

She also requested the PM "to ensure that a broad-based and transparent dialogue on the subject is opened up at the earliest".

Mamata had written to Modi on June 12 last year, expressing outrage over the draft Electricity Bill 2020, which, she, said, was an attempt by the Centre to "destroy" the country's federal structure. She claimed that the bill aims to make the entire state electricity grid an appendage of the National Grid.

She wrote in her letter that she stunned to learn that the bill " is coming back without any consideration of the reservations, and with some graver anti-people features’