Jammu, July 31, 2023 (PPI-OT): A large number of residents staged a protest against the new system of prepaid electricity bills at Janipur in Jammu. The protesters raised slogans against the Power Development Corporation Jammu while holding placards in their hands and disrupted the traffic at Janipur main stop. During this, the protesters were raising slogans ‘Get out of the houses, fight with the dishonest, hooliganism will not work, will not work’.

“The PDD is forcing people to pay electricity bills through prepaid system,” the protesting people said, adding, it has also been started from Janipur area. They said that the Government is forcing all new rules on Jammuites. They demanded the removal of authorities forcing people to shift to pre-paid billing portal. They said that no party including BJP is opposing it but people decided to oppose it strongly and are continuously protesting against it on the streets against the authorities of Power Development Corporation. “We won’t tolerate this at any cost and would intensify the movement against it in the days to come,” they added.

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