The city Congress activists led by the party city unit president Mohan Joshi, former mayor Ankush Kakade, Anant Gadgil today organised an agitation in front of MSEB's Rasta Peth office to protest against power cuts resulting from load shedding.

Agitating Congress activists were shouting anti-government slogans, however, the targets of their attacks were Chief Minister Manohar Joshi and Deputy Chief Minister Gopinath Munde. Slogans like `Rajya sarkar ke do gunde, Joshi Munde' and `Joshi Mundyancha karayacha kay, khali doke var pay' were raised.

Speaking on the occasion, Mohan Joshi demanded Munde's resignation alleging that Munde had failed to improve the functioning of MSEB.

``Daily power cuts for long hours are causing lot of harassment to Puneites. Besides the corruption in MSEB has reached new heights, as citizens are distributed incorrect electricity bills and then often bribes are demanded to correct them,'' said Joshi.

Accusing Munde of supplying electricity to Gujarat, even when the state was facing an acute power shortage, various Congress leaders including former MLA Aminuddin Penwale, corporator Ramesh Khanna raised a demand that Munde had no right to continue in the office. The Congress activists were later arrested by the police.