The soft stand of TDP towards Telangana was costing power consumers in the State dearly, with an additional burden of Rs 2 crore a day being put on the State power consumers, former MLA Malladi Vishnu has alleged.
Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday Mr. Vishnu said that Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, who was constantly worried about the prospects of his party in Telangana, was supplying power at a lower rate to the State. TDP MLA in Telangana A. Revanth Reddy was boasting that 54 per cent of the power generated by plants in the united Andhra Pradesh was going to his state according to the norms of the Andhra Pradesh Re-Organisation Act.
The cost to the new Andhra Pradesh State for supplying power to Telangana was Rs. 2 crore a day, Mr. Vishnu alleged. The government was absorbing the additional cost, but ultimately it would have to be passed on to the people, he explained. The State government had a responsibility of telling the people about this issue, he said.
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The incidence of cheating and other related crime had skyrocketed in Vijayawada zone in the recent days, he said. This was because a majority of the people in the State had become “hopelessly debt-ridden” after the government broke its promise to waive loans.
Telugu Desam leaders were charging the Congress government with leaving the state and country in economic shambles. The people benefited by the welfare measures of the Congress party. The TDP government too was just continuing the same welfare measures after changing names of schemes. The party leaders therefore had no moral right to criticise the policies of the Congress government, he said.
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