YSRCP warns Govt over power tariff hike

Hyderabad, March 20,
2013: Demanding the Kiran Kumar Reddy-led Congress Government to release a
white paper on the power crisis immediately, YSRCP MLAs on Wednesday warned the
Government they will continue to agitate in the assembly till the hiked power tariff
and surcharges are reduced and undeclared power cuts done away with.

Speaking to media
persons outside the assembly after the House is adjourned, YSRCLP Deputy leader
Sobha Nagi Reddy and other MLAs said the Government has burdened the people
with Rs.30,000 Cr through hike in power charges in the last four years in utter
disregard of the 2009 election manifesto of the Congress.

“By resorting to hike
in the power tariff and by not implementing its promise of 9-hour a day free
power supply to the farming community, the Congress Government has cheated the
people,” Sobha pointed out.

Earlier, YSRCP MLAs
attended the assembly wearing black badges and the inflated power bills and
also served notice of adjournment motion to the Speaker. The Speaker however
rejected the notice.

The MLAs said the
Government has been in a deep slumber despite the people’s suffering with
farmers finding their crops withered, patients suffering in hospitals due to
insufficient medical services, industries getting closed and students not
knowing how to carry on their studies with the continuous undeclared power cuts.

“The Government has not
only diluted the free power supply scheme but also turned the state into
darkness,” Sobha Nagi Reddy regretted, adding there was no increase of power
tariff even once during the period of YSR.

“Dr. YSR not only
supplied free power but also waived arrears of power bills accumulated during
the period of Chandrababu Naidu,” the MLAs said.