Mangaluru: CPI (M) lays seizure to MESCOM office, to withdraw hike in tariff

Bellevision Media Network

Mangaluru, 13 Aug 2016: The activists of CPI (M) laid the seizure to sub-division office Mangaluru Electricity Supply Company (MESCOM) at nearby Nehru Maidan, here on Friday August 12, against hiking tariff of electricity supply and collecting additional deposit from consumers.    

 

Hundreds of activists including electricity consumers held a protest rally from Mini Vidhana Soudha to sub-division office of MESCOM, hurling slogans to withdraw hike in tariff and collecting additional deposit from electricity consumers.

 

 

Mangaluru south CPI (M) secretary Sunil Kumar Bajal, COI (M) DK district Committee members Vasudev Ucchil and Yogish Jappinamogaru alleged that the public utility provider MESCOM is swindling the electricity consumers by insisting on collecting additional deposits that is a burden to ordinary folks.

 

The protesters presented a memorandum to MESCOM officer who arrived at the spot.

 

CPI (M) district Committee member Jayanti B Shetty, town Committee members Santosh Shaktinagar, Premanat Jalligudde, Lingappa Nantoor, Sadiq Kannur, Suresh Bajal, Dinesh Shetty, Pradeep and others were present.