Govt asked to compensate power cut loss

Hyderabad, March 1, 2013: YSR Congress has demanded the State government to compensate the loss incurred by farmers due to the heavy power cuts and tender an unconditional apology for going back on the promise of providing seven hour power supply.

“It is very inhuman on part of the government to blatantly impose power cuts at a time when the crops are about to be harvested. The State should pay adequate compensation for the damage of crops besides tendering an apology,” Party MLA G Srikanth Reddy told reporters here on Friday.

The State Government has been very harsh on farmers and has burdened all sections heavily with its wrong policies. It could not provide adequate power in monsoon itself as it was groping in darkness with inefficiency and indifference, he said.

The power crisis is the making of the State Government itself as it lacked foresight and could not persuade the Centre for increasing the gas quota to improve power generation, he said adding that the other alternative for the State is to agree and own up its failure and openly appeal to the people to make alternative arrangements. 

The state has plunged into darkness like never before with the Government announcing official power cuts which will directly affect, agriculture, industry, education and other sectors, he said.

The official machinery is being heavily misused and sincere officers are under duress as it was evident in the Kadapa cooperative elections. Even when an election official was kidnapped, no case was booked and this shows the state of affairs, he said.

It was only YSR who had brought the state from the brink of collapse due the wrong policies of Chandrababu Naidu to a vibrant economy and shaped a welfare state. The Kiran Kumar Reddy government is on the lines of the TDP rule and only YS Jagan Mohan Reddy can bring back the golden era back, he said.

Though Chandababu Niadu is going on a promising spree in his padayatra announcing sops to minorities and BCs, people are not in a position to believe him as his nine year term has no records of taking care of the weaker sections.

It was YSR who had raised the hopes among the marginalized sections of the society which was the reason why people voted Congress for the second term in the hope that YSR would continue all the welfare schemes.

The Congress government has diluted all his schemes and has been very callous towards, agriculture and industry, he said.