Owaisi slams Centre on coal crisis

Hyderabad: AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday slammed the Centre over the reports of the coal shortage in the country and said that the country has to suffer due to lack of planning by the Centre.

Owaisi said, “It is a fact that out of 135 coal plants, 108 have critically low stocks of coal. Andhra Pradesh is facing load shedding. What is the reason behind it? You (Centre) do not plan anything or anticipate anything. If the Centre would have planned the vaccination drive properly after the first wave of Covid-19, India would not have witnessed lakhs of death during the second wave of the pandemic,” he said.

“You (Centre) did not have far-sightedness. When the economy will reopen after the second wave-induced lockdown, the demand for power will eventually go up. You did not notice it. The country has to suffer every time because of your non-planning,” he added.