Thiruvananthapuram, Senior CPI leader P Rajeev on Thursday alleged that Kerala Chief Minister V D Satheesan concealed facts that buying electricity from a private company will cause more losses to the state than purchasing it from Himachal Pradesh.
The CM had said that one proposal was to procure electricity from Himachal Pradesh at ₹ 14.50 per unit through Power Trading Corporation India Ltd, while GNA Energy had offered power at ₹ 8.63 and ₹ 8.90 per unit.
Rajeev told reporters that the state government’s decision to buy electricity through a private trading platform “will lead to huge corruption”. Terming his claims as “lies”, the senior CPI leader said that power will have to be bought from GNA for the entire period, including the non-peak hours when the electricity generated by the state itself was in excess of the requirement. He said that Himachal Pradesh was providing power only during the peak hours and not during the daytime.
“The CM is hiding the facts. Why does the government want to enter into such an agreement which will cause a major loss to the state? What is the need to buy power hastily now without any tender?” were the queries raised by Rajeev.
He said that this was according to a letter reportedly sent by former Kerala State Electricity Board chairman M G Rajamanickam to the government. The senior Marxist leader claimed that procuring electricity from the private platform “will lead to huge corruption”.
