Punjab 'power' play: Will empty coffers permit free electricity announcements?

This election season, free power supply has turned out to be the biggest poll promise in Punjab while the state continues to reel under a huge debt of Rs 2.73 lakh crore.

With assembly elections slated for next year, political parties in Punjab have now upped their ante to woo voters, and this time, the biggest poll promise that has set the ball rolling is free power supply. 200AAP Aam Aadmi Party's national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday announced that if voted to power, his party's government will provide free electricity upto 300 units to the domestic power consumers. He said unpaid power bills will be waived off and an uninterrupted power supply will be maintained.