BJP demands ‘white paper’ on power scenario in Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow, May 15 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday demanded a white paper by the state government on the power scenario in the state.

Party spokesman Chandra Mohan, accusing the Samajwadi Party (SP) government in the state of "presiding over a mess in the power sector", said only a white paper can expose the lacunae in the power sector.

Talking to reporters at the state party headquarters here, the BJP spokesman said the endless power outages across the state within the first month of summer have exposed the tall and false claims of the Akhilesh Yadav government that the power situation was much better than the previous years.

"…it is shocking that the chief minister is blatantly lying about the power situation and is trying to hoodwink the people," the BJP leader said citing how the new Anpara D unit was inaugurated with much fanfare recently but not a single unit of electricity has been produced there so far.

Because of poor maintenance and overloading, many transformers in the state have crashed, he alleged and added that wherever new transformers had been installed by the state government they were of poor quality and were not able to bear the overloading in peak summer.