YSRCP's Bandh was a flop, claims CLP

The Congress Legislature Party on Friday claimed that the State-wide Bandh call given by the YSR Congress party was a flop.

Talking to reporters at the CLP office, Government Chief Whip Gandra Venkataramana Reddy said that the people have out rightly rejected the YSR Congress party's call for Bandh. All educational and business establishments have remained opened and the Bandh call had no impact on the routine life across the State, he said.

Accusing the YSRCP of trying to gain mileage out of the power crisis, he said that the general public have realised that they were being misled by the opposition parties over the issue of power crisis. Claiming that the government has been spending hundreds of crores to procure additional power, he said by not responding to the Bandh call, people have endorsed the efforts being made by Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy to tide over the power crisis.

Venkataramana Reddy said that the recent rainfall have started improving the power generation situation in the State. He said the due to good rainfall, 486 MW of power would be generated by the Srisailam Dam. He said that the rain Gods have failed the plans of entire opposition parties, including the Telugu Desam Party, to defame the State Government over the energy crisis.