Blaming the Centre for the prevailing power crisis in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav asked the BJP-led NDA Government to increase the quota of coal and power at the earliest so that people could get the relief.
“The State Government is committed to provide adequate electricity by 2016 but the State needs help from the Centre. We need more coal but are even not getting the allotted quota,” Chief Minister said in Vidhan Sabha here on Wednesday.
Making an intervention during the question hour CM got annoyed when BJP member laxmikant Bajpai alleged that CM has no time even to talk to Union Power Minister.
“How do you know (that he did not speak to Union Minister)IJ Were you tapping our phonesIJ” CM asked. “We are in touch and I have given all the information about availability of coal and electricity to the Centre,” he said. CM was very critical of BJP the way Centre has overlooked UP’s plight.
“People of UP have overwhelmingly voted in favour of the BJP with a hope that the party will brighten their future. Instead, it (UP) has become dark,” Yadav said. Parliamentary Affairs Minister fished out figures to show that Centre has allocated just 40 per cent of the allotted coal to the thermal power plants. “When we cannot get coal how can we generate electricity,” he said. BJP members were on their feet when Azam Khan said that while the country was reeling under acute poverty Prime Minister Narendra Modi had sanctioned $17,000 million as aid to Fiji.