Telangana BJP chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar has accused Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao of resorting to ‘blackmail’ of the farmers by “falsely propagating” that the Centre is going to put meters on the agriculture pump sets and challenged the latter to prove if it was being done in any of the 17 state governments ruled by the party across the country.
“There is conspiracy behind KCR’s repeated charges of meters for pump sets as he is unable to provide free power round the clock with the TRS government in financial doldrums not even having money to pay salaries to its employees,” he charged on Monday.
In a statement released to the media even as he continued his ‘Praja Sangrama Yatra’ third phase on the 19th day passing through Chagal, Station Ghanpur, Shivunupalli and other villages, the BJP president asserted that the Centre’s new Electricity Act had clearly mentioned that there was no need for any meters for the farm pump sets.
