Power crisis part of bid to privatise power sector: Pinarayi Vijayan
Opposition leader Pinarayi Vijayan has alleged that the current power crisis in Kerala is an engineered political strategy to facilitate the privatization of the state's power sector. He claims that private monopolies are being positioned to take over the industry at the expense of public interests.
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The statement highlights the ongoing political debate regarding the privatization of essential public utilities and the potential impact on energy affordability.
The power crisis in the State is part of a covert political move to hand over the power sector to private players, Keralam’s Leader of the Opposition Leader Pinarayi Vijayan said. Speaking after inaugurating a seminar on ‘Privatisation Policies of the Central-State Governments and the Power Crisis’, organised by the Kerala chapter of the Electricity Employees Federation of India, he said the country’s total power generation capacity was almost double of its peak demand.
At the same time, private monopolies control 60% of the country’s power generation, and the crises are being engineered to enable private firms to reap exorbitant profits, he alleged. In Keralam, despite receiving sufficient indications of the crisis as early as the first week of June, the government deliberately dragged its feet on the issue, he said.
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