Blaming Uttar Pradesh Government for the prevailing power crisis in Uttar Pradesh Union Power minister Piyush Goel said that Akhilesh Yadav Government has failed to improve distribution and transmission system network.
“Centre has sufficient power and it can export it to UP but the UP Government has to purchase it after improving its transmission and distribution system,” he said while interaction with party workers at state BJP headquarters here on Monday.
Commenting on the poor power situation in the state the union minister said that the infrastructure of power should first be improved then only people can think of adequate power.
During the previous Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government Rs 7000 crore was spent on monuments and statues but that money could have been spent for improving the basic structure of power system in the state, he said.
Talking about the deteriorating law and order situation in the state Goel said all the non BJP government have problem of law and order . “law and order will be the main poll plank for the BJP in 2017 UP assembly polls,” he said.
Claiming that the two year regime of the Narendra Modi government have witnessed all round improvement in all the sectors he said the consumption of coal has gone down by 20 per cent in last two years. In comparison to this in last UPA regime there were only scams,” he said.
later he called on Governor Ram Naik at Raj Bhawan.