Hyderabad: Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party president Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Monday lashed out at chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for making false accusations against the Centre stating that it had introduced the electricity bill making it mandatory for the states to install electricity meters to the agriculture pump sets.
Addressing a massive rally at Ramlila grounds at Qutbullapur on the outskirts of Hyderabad before embarking on his fourth phase of Praja Sangrama Yatra, Sanjay said KCR had completely misled the state assembly by showing some outdated papers.
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Displaying the proposed Electricity (Amendment) Bill, the BJP state president said, "Here is the bill. Let KCR show whether there is any provision for the installation of meters to the agriculture pump sets. If he has shame and sense, he should immediately resign from the chief minister's post and apologise to the people. If I am wrong, I will quit my MP seat."
Stating that he was ready to prove KCR wrong, Sanjay alleged that the Telangana government was trying to impose a burden of another Rs 4,000 crore by increasing power tariffs in the name of installing meters to farm pump sets and throwing the blame on the Centre. "If the meters are installed, we shall break the walls of Pragati Bhavan," he warned.
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