The war of words between the Congress and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) over the former’s State president A. Revanth Reddy’s comments that there is no need for 24×7 free power supply to agriculture and that the BRS government has been deceiving farmers on the scheme seem to be going unabated as the two sides refuse to budge.
Joining the issue of demand for a debate on the power being supplied to farmers raised by Mr. Revanth Reddy, Minister for Energy G. Jagadish Reddy said on Sunday that the State government was ready to open all the “energy files” – the details of energy being supplied to the farm sector – provided the TPCC chief was ready to open energy files pertaining to the periods of his ‘former boss’ (N. Chandrababu Naidu) and new bosses (Congress CMs) to tell people about energy supplied to farmers from 1995 to 2004 and from 2004 to 2014.
Mr. Jagadish Reddy said BRS is ready for a debate on aspects whether farmers need three-hour supply or supply for three crops. He pointed out that announcing power holidays would go to the credit of the Congress and the party was trying to spread lies to cover up its goof-up on free power issue. He said the Congress governments in the past had failed to provide either available water for irrigation and drinking needs or to the required energy for farming.
