BRS, BJP trying to gain political mileage from drought: Komatireddy

Roads & Buildings Minister Komatireddy Venkat Reddy on Friday accused the previous BRS government of misleading people with claims of providing uninterrupted 24-hour free electricity and asserted that the Congress government was committed to ensuring reliable power supply under Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy.

Speaking to reporters at Indira Bhavan in Nalgonda, the Minister said power demand in Telangana had risen to nearly 20,000 MW due to drought conditions and increased dependence on borewells for agriculture. He alleged that while people were facing hardships because of the drought, leaders of the BRS and BJP were trying to derive political mileage from the situation.