With the Andhra Pradesh government making its intention clear to install meters to all agricultural service connections in the State in a year's time, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Sunday exhorted the farmers cutting across party lines to gear up for a united struggle against the ruling YSR Congress Party (YSRCP), alleging that the move was aimed at diluting the free power scheme.
TDP farmers wing leader K. Venkaiah said farming would be unprofitable in the absence of supply of power free of cost to farmers which had been envisaged as per power sector reforms as they had to draw water from a depth of up to 400 feet in the drought-prone Prakasam district.
