State PWD minister Vikramaditya Singh on Thursday accused actor-politician Kangana Ranaut of playing mischief by not paying bills, and then cursing the government. This came after the Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board Limited (HPSEB) had clarified that the BJP MP has not paid bills, including old dues amounting Rs 90,384 for two months.
A video of Ranaut, the BJP Lok Sabha MP from Mandi, criticising the Congress government in Himachal Pradesh for the "inflated electricity bills" went viral on social media during a recent public meeting in her constituency.
"I received an electricity bill of Rs 1 lakh for one month for my house in Manali. I don't even live there. It is such a miserable condition," Kangana said.
Writing on his Facebook account, the PWD minister stated: "Mohtarma badi shararat karti hai, bijli ka bill nahin bharti hai, phir manch par sarkar ko kosti hai, aisa kaisa chalega" (Madam plays mischief, she does not pay electricity bills, then curses government from public platform. How will this work?" In a statement issued on Wednesday, the HPSEB said the bills amounting to Rs 90,384 were for two months, January and February, and they also included previous dues of Rs 32,287.
"The domestic connection under No. 100000838073 is registered in the name of Kangana Ranaut at her residence in Simsa village in Manali.
"It is clarified that the connected load of her house is 94.82 KW, which is 1,500 per cent more than the average electric load for a normal house. She (Ranaut) did not pay her bills from October to December on time," the HPSEBL had stated in the statement.
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