Revanth Reddy Slams State, Centre On Fuel Price Hike

TPCC chief and MP Revanth Reddy today slammed the State and the union governments on the issue of the hike in fuel prices.

He alleged that both the state and the union governments were hiding their mistakes on the issue, and that the two governments were ruling only with the intention to loot the state and the country respectively.

Speaking to media persons at Gandhi Bhavan, Reddy said that the K Chandrashekar Rao-led state government had imposed a burden of Rs. 12,000 crore on the citizens by increasing the electricity charges, and that it was grossly unfair as it was the TRS government that was responsible for the power crisis in the state in the first place.

He said that the state government owed huge arrears to the power distribution companies as it had supplied power free of cost to different sectors. He also claimed that the evading of the payment of the electricity charges by various entities had caused a loss of Rs. 6,000 crores to the discoms.

He said that on the one hand the state government was claiming that it was providing free power, and on the other hand it was burdening the people by increasing the power charges.

Targeting the union government, he said that the petrol and diesel charges were not hiked for four and half months thanks to the Assembly elections in five states of the country, and that the pendulum was swinging to the other extreme now.

He derisively said that GDP stood for gas, diesel and petrol price hikes in the BJP government's rule.

He also mocked the leaders of the TRS and the BJP holding dharnas on the roads after increasing the prices of power and fuel themselves.

Reddy announced that the Congress would hold protest programs on March 30 at all the mandal AE and DE offices demanding that the state government roll back the power tariff hike, and another protest on the 31st of this month against the increase in gas prices.

The party would also hold rallies at all the mandal headquarters of the state on April 4 and burn the effigies of KCR, and then lay siege to all the Collectorates the following day, Reddy said.

The party would also hold a siege of the Vidyut Soudha on April 7, he added.