Former Minister Dr P Shanker Rao has lambasted the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy for increasing the power charges and demanded the latter to roll back the power charges immediately.
Speaking to the media at the Assembly premises here on Wednesday, Shanker Rao asked the Chief Minister to discuss the issue with the Electricity Regulatory Commission (ERC) and decrease the power charges. He also demanded the Centre to provide gas for the sake of power production to solve the power crisis prevailing in the State. He asked the Chief Minister to provide adequate power to the people by purchasing it from other States.
He warned the Chief Minister that the Congress party will face same fate as the TDP, which failed to tackle the power issue then, faced in 2003. He said that there were no people but only leaders present in the Dharnas taken up by the opposition parties.
–Agencies