Many places in the city witnessed power outages for hours on Friday night and Saturday morning.
Netizens posted on X about the power outage, tagging BRS MLA KT Rama Rao (KTR). Responding, KTR addressed concern about the power outage on X.
KTR also re-posted postings by netizens that tagged Energy Minister Bhatti Vikramarka who had earlier declared that there were no power outages.
“Unfortunately, after the Congress came to power, Telangana has plunged into darkness again with power outages becoming a daily occurrence,” KTR said.
He criticised the Revanth Reddy Government for its ‘inability’ to utilise the ‘robust’ power infrastructure established by the BRS government.
“Before 2014, power cuts and power holidays were common. The KCR government completely changed this and ensured 24-hour quality power supply which boosted Hyderabad’s development. However, the Congress government has brought back the old days of a decade ago inconveniencing both the public and industries with frequent power outages,” he said.
He said during KCR’s rule the per capita power consumption increased from 1,110 units to 2,110 units and solar power capacity increased from 71 MW to over 5,000 MW. Installed power capacity in Telangana jumped from 7,778 MW to 18,000 MW (expected to reach 25,000 MW with the full operation of UMPP in Yadadri) and transmission capacity increased from 13,900 MW to 37,000 MW in 10 years.
