VISAKHAPATNAM: As part of Praja Rajyam Party’s campaign against corruption and various scams, its leaders and cadre, headed by district and city units’ convener and former MLA Ganta Srinivasa Rao staged a dharna in front of LVS Power project near Pendurty, about 30 km. from here on Friday, demanding action against perpetrators of the ‘scam’. According to Mr. Srinivasa Rao and other speakers, who addressed party workers near the plant premises at Gurrampalem, as much as Rs.180 crores had been paid to the plant management in the last six years, even though not even single unit of power was generated. Participants at the dharna displayed placards which highlighted how the plant management ‘without a single employee’ had allegedly pocketed Rs.30 crores in the last six years.
The PRP leader blamed both the TDP and the Congress for what he termed as ‘the scam’. The agreement was signed in 2002 when the TDP was in power. During his paadayatra as Opposition leader, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy alleged irregularities in Power Purchase Agreements and promised to review all PPAs. But nothing was done in the last four and a half years of his rule.
According to him the plant was owned by a close relative of a Union Cabinet Minister from the State. He demanded a statement from the Government regarding all aspects of the liquid fuel-based 37 MW capacity plant. The PRP would continue its agitation till action was taken, he asserted, and announced constitution of an action committee to carry on the agitation. Party Ganababu and G.V. Narasimha Rao also addressed the gathering
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