KCR Writes A Letter To PM Modi To Withdraw The Electricity Bill

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday in which the minister has requested him to withdraw the proposed Electricity Act (Draft Electricity Bill Amendment Act 2020).

Rao, by listing out the various objectionable provisions including the authority to appoint SERC by a selection committee constituted by the Union government, highlighted that the implementation of this bill would have an adverse impact directly on the management of State Electricity utilities.

Rao also said that the bill is aimed at taking the powers from the state and giving them to the Centre. KCR said it would work against the interest of farmers and very poor domestic consumers.

“Merely a particular subject is in the concurrent list of the Constitution does not mean that the Government of India/Parliament will enact laws which have a direct and major influence on the functioning of the state government. We strongly oppose such a tendency”, Rao writes in the letter.