Revanth Reddy Accepts Challenge For Public Debate Over Free Power

TPCC chief Revanth Reddy today accepted the challenge of the State's ministers for holding a public debate on the issue 24-hour free power supply to the agriculture sector, and asked minister K T Rama Rao to decide the location for it.

Speaking to media persons at Gandhi Bhavan, Reddy reiterated that the State government was not supplying the 24-hour free power to the farm sector. He said that the CMD of the TSTRANSCO had already stated in the past that the corporation was giving 24-hour free power only in single phase, and that the officials of the TRANSCO too had already stated that they were maintaining restrictions on the supply of the supply of three-phase electricity to the farmers, and were supplying the power only for 8 to 10 hours a day to the agriculture sector.

He also added that Congress MP Komatireddy Venkat Reddy had already proved with evidence that there was no 24-hour free power supply to the farm sector in the State, and that he too was ready to prove that the claims of the BRS leaders on the issue were wrong everywhere in the State.

Reddy also said that the State government was showing that it was spending Rs 16,000 crore for the supply of free power in the official records, but the ruling BRS leaders were siphoning off Rs 8,000 crore of the Rs 16,000 crore. He also alleged that CM K Chandrashekar Rao had committed irregularities in the purchase of power from Chhattisgarh. These explained why the State government was not purchasing power from the union government when the latter was ready to supply it for a lesser rate, Reddy claimed.