Power crisis: Why Jaya’s displeasure against Centre is justified

Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s letter on Tuesday to the prime minister Manmohan Singh, criticising the Central PSUs’ poor performance aggravating the power shortage in the state, betrays the ruling party’s anxiety that it might affect the party’s prospects in the Lok Sabha elections. Power crisis was the biggest challenge before Jayalalithaa when she became the chief minister in 2011. With a shortage of roughly 4000 MW, the state, including the industrial hubs, went without electricity for several hours daily. It had a cascading effect on several sectors.

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