Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy announced that the government was ordering a judicial inquiry into the power purchase agreements entered by the previous BRS government with Chhattisgarh apart from the construction of the Bhadradri and Yadadri thermal power plants.
Mr. Reddy was responding to a challenge thrown by Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLA and former minister for energy G. Jagadish Reddy during a discussion on the power sector after the government placed a White Paper on the table of the House. ‘As sought by Mr. Jagadish Reddy the government will get all the three issues inquired and the Ministers concerned and officials would provide the details,” he said.
The Chief Minister also offered to constitute an all-party fact-finding committee to study the 24-hour free power supply for the farmers claimed by the previous BRS government. Mr. Jagadish Reddy said that the BRS government provided 24-hour power supply to the agriculture sector and it had not resorted to any irregularities as is being claimed by the present Congress government.
