Summary:
Lucknow, Jan 23 (PTI) In the run-up to the assembly election in Uttar Pradesh, Union minister and BJP leader Anurag Thakur on Sunday targeted the Samajwadi Party over its promise of providing 300 units of electricity free to domestic consumers, saying under the party-led government power cables were used to hang clothes to dry.
The Union Information and Broadcasting Minister took part in a party campaign in Hazratganj area of the state capital.
"Getting electricity for 300 hours a month was difficult in his regime, but now he is talking about giving 300 units of free electricity.
This raises doubts," he said, targeting SP president Akhilesh Yadav.
Power cables were used to hang clothes during the previous SP regime, he said.
"This is not the new SP, this is the same SP.