Hyderabad: Congress leader and leader of opposition in Legislative Council, Mr. Shabbir Ali has strongly condemned the hike in RTC fares and power tariff by the TRS government. Speaking to media, he accused Chief Minister of mishandling both RTC and Energy Departments.
“Instead of taking measures to improve the functioning of RTC during last two years, the TRS government pushed the corporation into a crisis and now it is threatening to close it down. The government has failed to generate a single MW of additional power in the last two years. But it has cleared hike in power tariff. Congress will launch a mass agitation against the proposed hikes,” he said.
Meanwhile, TS TD president L. Ramana criticised the TRS government on agreeing to hike RTC bus fares which he said would burden the poor.
“While the CM is claiming that the state is rich, why is he putting burden on the poor and middleclass by hiking power tariff and RTC fares? It will be additional burden on the middleclass which is suffering with rise in price of essential commodities,” he said.
