Senior BJP leader and MLA T. Raja Singh has demanded Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to withdraw the power tariff hike and also take up paddy procurement across the State without any further delay on Thursday.
In an open letter to the Chief Minister, he said the citizens are already burdened due to the loss of livelihoods and economic distress because of the ongoing COVID pandemic and a state which boasts of a surplus budget should not burden the common folk further.
Mr. Singh blamed the TRS Government’s “lopsided policies for the TS being pushed into a debt trap and cleaning up the treasury”. The regime has gone for high priced power purchases and the power distribution companies were not given budget allocations leaving them with ₹50,000 crore default payments hole and to cover up the poor and the middle class are being forced to pay for high tariff, he charged.
