I just read this and was appalled!
Arvind Kejriwal is motivating people not to actually pay their electricity bills?
God save them all.
This suggestion is directly telling people to become CRIMINALS!
What is the legal definition of a Crime? Check this link from which I am producing a para:
Crimes are usually categorized as felonies or misdemeanors based on their nature and the maximum punishment that can be imposed. A felony involves serious misconduct that is punishable by death or by imprisonment for more than one year. Most state criminal laws subdivide felonies into different classes with varying degrees of punishment. Crimes that do not amount to felonies are misdemeanors or violations. A misdemeanor is misconduct for which the law prescribes punishment of no more than one year in prison. Lesser offenses, such as traffic and parking infractions, are often called violations and are considered a part of criminal law.
This is why Arvind Kejriwal is SO WRONG:
– You cannot consume electricity and then NOT PAY for it! That’s a crime!
When you apply for an electricity connection, you AGREE to pay for your consumption! If there is a discrepancy in the bill, there is a method of resolving it. If you don’t like your electricity supplier, change the Company. But you HAVE TO PAY for what has been consumed by you!
How to change your electricity supplier in India?
It’s not easy but it’s not impossible. Check this facebook post that addresses this question. From what I understand, in situations where the supplier cannot be changed, consumers can easily go to court (IF they are being looted/charged obnoxious and unfair prices and get Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission to intervene/ go to consumer court?)
Check this twitter conversation on the same subject:
NOT PAYING your electricity bill for electricity consumed is an Economic CRIME because it’s a breach of the contract you have signed with the electricity Company. The Company has technically ‘lent’ you electricity on CREDIT,to be consumedby you, at a pre-agreed price. You have to pay your dues!
– If the ‘protest’ against whatever grievance Mr. Kejriwal is fighting for, is linked to the highcost of electricity, then the legal and sensible method is to write to the electricity Company and DISCONNECT your connection!! PROTEST by not consuming, and not by Not Paying!!
– The electricity Company has the rights and means to legally recover all the moneys from these people, disconnect their connections, and also blacklist them. I don’t think Arvind Kejriwal realizes but ‘citizen reputation’ is very important and being rapidly shared between institutions. Getting blacklisted for not paying DUES – be it credit cards, bank loans, EMIs and electricity bills is ECONOMIC SUICIDE for any citizen’s long term future!!!
– Finally, I am amazed by Arvind Kejriwal’s statement (see black box in picture) that goes, “We have told them (people), not to be afraid. If the government cuts your connection, get an electrician and get it restored. This is your electricity, not the government’s.”
Honestly, I have no words to describe the interpretation of this sentence. Simply put, it’s misleading, deceiving, illegal and criminal in intent.
This leads to many, many, illegal insinuations. Farmers can stop paying loans, businessmen can easily default on taxes (Why pay taxes? They are too high!!), so on and so forth. Essentially this is a PUBLIC CALL FOR ANARCHY.
I rest my case. Not paying for what you have used is plain, simple cheating. And cheating being encouraged by a politician who wears a Gandhi Cap is PORNOGRAPHY.
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and this is the HUMILITY of the reps of Arvind Kejriwal!
A ‘message’ arrives in my FB. I actually ask the person to post on this article so that I CAN PROMOTE the view – instead, I am told that I am A TOOL!!!
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