New Delhi, April 4 -- Delhi Power Minister Ashish Sood on Thursday warned of strict action against those "spreading lies" about power cuts in the city. Sood also claimed that during the over-decade-long AAP regime, there were over five-hour cuts on 31,958 occasions, averaging 14 cuts per day.
In a statement, he also shared the instances of power cuts provided by the discoms relating to power outages in the last 10 years. "According to the data, Delhi experienced 7,160 such instances in 2015, followed by 8,659 in 2016, 7,301 in 2017, 6,265 in 2018 and 5,010 in 2019. The numbers further declined to 3,807 in 2020, 3,671 in 2021, and 2,692 in 2022. However, the instances rose slightly to 3,486 in 2023 and 3,907 in 2024," Sood said. Leader of O...