Overview

• The Bijli Mahapanchayat on June 22 unanimously decided to trigger a Jail Bharo Andolan once tenders are issued for Purvanchal and Dakshinanchal distribution companies.
• The Vidyut Karmachari Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti has rolled out a statewide outreach to recruit electricity employees, farmers, teachers and consumer organisations to the movement.
• Railway union leader Shiv Gopal Mishra pledged that railway workers across India will join electricity employees in court arrests should privatisation proceed.
• Speakers at the Mahapanchayat have demanded a CBI probe into alleged large-scale corruption and pointed to Torrent Power’s ₹2,200 crore default in Agra as evidence of privatisation failures.
• Power employees plan a nationwide protest on July 2 followed by a one-day symbolic strike on July 9, vowing to continue until the government withdraws the privatisation proposal.