Harish Rao said the Chief Minister, who had nurtured the State and rebuilt it so well, would be able to get a thumping victory from any part of the State
Energy Minister Jagadish Reddy said the State government had purchased power from the National Load Despatch Centre (NLDC), an establishment of the Government of India, by ensuring transparency.
Telangana was the only state in the country where farmers were supported with an unfailing network of free and quality power supply and people in rest of the country were demanding the same.
Addressing a news conference here on Friday, Harish Rao said the Congress must come forward to make the forthcoming Assembly polls a referendum on the power issue.
Critics who denounce the provision of free electricity to the agricultural sector inadvertently reveal their contempt and animosity towards farmers and the sector as a whole
During the Congress rule in the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, power was supplied for only six hours and farmers had to spent sleepless nights in their fields, said Dasoju Sravan
BRS Hyderabad district incharge Dasoju Sravan charged that TPCC president had once again proven that he was a covert of the BJP by working against the Congress party’s diktat
Besides staging protests, effigies of the TPCC chief were also burnt in different places of Karimnagar, Peddapalli, Jagtial and Rajanna-Sircilla districts
Speaking on the occasion, the MLA said Revanth Reddy had hinted at the Congress bringing back the old days to the farming fraternity when the farmers used to struggle due to lack of sufficient power supply.
The statement against the BRS initiative set off a severe backlash, with the BRS quick to launch a State-wide protest against what it termed the anti-farmer stance of Congress
TPCC president A Revanth Reddy remarked during his interaction with NRI members from Telangana in US that 24 hour free power supply to the farming sector was unnecessary.