The Meghalaya High Court will tomorrow hear the public interest litigation (PIL) filed by All India Trinamool Congress spokesperson Saket Gokhale regarding disconnection of electricity to villages in Garo Hills.
The PIL will be heard by the division bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Wanlura Diengdoh.
Gokhale had filed the PIL seeking the High Court intervention to stop the disconnection of electricity to villages in Garo Hills because of a handful of defaulters.
Slamming the MDA government for the “outrageous move”, Gokhale said the government adopted the “cruel tactic of cutting electricity to entire villages just because one of two people have pending bills”.
“MeECL’s unfair tactics must come to an end! We are against the proxy-BJP government’s inhuman practice of barring electricity supply to entire villages for a few pending bills. We will get to the bottom of this government’s cruel actions, and fight for our people’s rights,” Gokhale tweeted last week.
Earlier Gokhale had written to Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong regarding disconnection of electricity in the villages of Rari and Kosi Chora in North Garo hills and Dingrepa and Matchu Ki because of a handful of defaulters.
He had also urged the Deputy Chief Minister of Meghalaya to take immediate action against the MeECL officials who are involved “in this criminal practice of blackmail, coercion, and intimidation by shutting off transformers to the villagers.”
