Telangana Rastra Samiti (TRS) Government’s claim of providing round the clock uninterrupted free power supply to the agriculture is a sham as “it is free power in the farm fields and back breaking power bills at home”. With the latest power power tariff hike, upto ₹6,000 crore is being mopped up causing heavy financial burden on the households,” said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Telangana president and MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Friday.
“The KCR government has been misleading people on free power to agriculture and this bankrupt government is in no position to pay arrears to the power distribution companies to the tune of ₹60,000 crores. The next government will have to bear the brunt of this and it will be one of first things we will do when we come to power,” he said.
On the second day of his ‘Praja Sangrama Yatra’ in Jogulamba Gadwal’s Lingwai village, the party chief said the government has also increased the RTC fares and because the people are up in arms against these hikes, the Chief Minister took up protests against the Central Government trying to blame it for his “failures” and to “divert” the attention of the people.”
