Re: Live Updates of Azadi March
I cannot understand what you want to point out, as I do not see any wrong Imran is doing here?
Electricity in last one year has almost doubled due to government incompetency, and Imran Khan is showing protest on behalf of the people. Instead of increasing electricity cost, government should try to reduce line losses, corruption in electricity departments, proper collection of bills, properly billing people, punishing line-men helping people steal electricity, and billing those who are stealing electricity. Imran mentioned that in last one year 28000 air conditioners were installed but less than 2000 are running on paid electricity. So, why honest users should pay for the incompetency and corruption of government and employees of electricity department?
What Imran is doing has already happened before … In India (2012) one politician asked people not to pay electricity bill because of unfair price hike. Many people burned electricity bill.
In UK, when Margret Thatcher introduced Poll Tax (replacing council property tax). Many considered that as unfair tax. People protested and many stopped paying Poll Tax (many Labour leaders were against Poll tax too and joined the protest by not paying Poll Tax). Council went to court against non-tax-payers and sent bailiff to people’s houses. Many started dodging bailiff instead of paying Poll Tax. Many were willing to go to jail instead of paying poll-tax (some also were jailed) … and in the end, UK government took that unfair tax back and re-introduced council property tax.
So, such protest is right of people when government imposes unfair taxes or unfair price hike of essential utilities happen. No doubt, docile people accept that as their fate, but people with ‘will to fight back’ do aggressive protest and not paying bills or disobedience is part of that protest to bring government to their senses … and under pressure of such protest, hearing and caring government back down from taxes people think as unfair, unfair price hikes, or government unfair demands (whatever it maybe).
Governments are there to serve people, not to antagonize or put burden on people that is excessive.

