BJP slams CM for power cuts

Hyderabad, Feb 8 : Bharatiya Janata Party national Vice-President Bandaru Dattatreyya on Saturday slammed the State Government for imposing power cuts.

“Summer is yet to arrive, but the Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy’s government has given much bigger sun stroke to the people of Andhra Pradesh. The government wants to take excuse on name of Rabi crop for power cuts but Congress government forgetting there own electoral promise of supplying uninterrupted power for seven hours to farmers,” Dattatreyya said in a press release.

Dattatreyya said that there were ample rains this season, but the government has failed to utilize the rain water and generate the required power to address the increasing demand. “There are many complaints from farmers on low voltage supply due to which the motors are getting burnt very often. In addition, the diesel prices are also increasing every month which is also and additional burden on farmers,” he said.

The BJP leader said that the Government has recently increased electricity charges up to Rs 3,200 crores on the people of Andhra Pradesh in the name of increasing power generations. But it failed to utilize the gas resources and getting state share allocated to the state of Andhra Pradesh from Centre. The State Government is trying to give false information that additional 30 MHz power will be generated. But there is no sign of it with these power cuts, he said.

Dattatreyya said that the power cuts have left no option for the small scale industries but close down. There is complete collapse of governance in state and it is going towards jungle raj, he said.

“The Chief Minister is only interested his own politics rather than govern ring the state Government has announced two hours power cut in cities, 4 hours in municipalities and 8 hours in mandal head quarters,” he said while demanding the government to fulfill its promise of supplying quality and uninterrupted power.  INN