Hyderabad: State BJP vice-president N.V.S.S. Prabhakar on Saturday urged the Justice Narasimha Reddy commission, probing into power sector irregularities during the BRS regime, to summon Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, irrigation minister Uttam Kumar Reddy and senior Congress leader K. Jana Reddy as they had raised a number of issues while they were in the Opposition.
Addressing a press conference, Prabhakar urged the government to extend the term of the Justice Narasimha Reddy commission. He said summoning officials and non-officials to depose before the commission would not serve any purpose. The Congress leaders could share their information on the power purchase agreements (PPAs) and higher power tariff.
Pointing out that Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman had accused the state government of financial indiscipline, Prabhakar said Telangana had only `2,937.58 crore funds with it that the Centre had released it on June 10.
The BJP leader said road and infrastructure projects were getting delayed due to inordinate delay in land acquisition. Union minister Nitin Gadkari had pointed to the delay and escalation of project cost of Regional Ring Road and other projects. Railway minister Aswini Vaishnav had made similar remarks about the delay in completing MMTS and railway underpasses.
Prabhakar said he has suggested to Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to constitute a task force with members from minor irrigation, power, civil supply, marketing, banking, food processing and warehousing ministries as several issues are interconnected to get the desired results.
