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Madhya Pradesh Energy Minister suffers power cut during press conference on power supply security

  • 6 years ago (2019-08-21)
  • David Flin
Asia 962 Transmission 218

Priyvrat Singh, Energy Minister of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, faced some embarrassment when power supply to the state Congress office failed during a press conference he was addressing. Ironically, the Energy Minister was giving a press conference on the achievements made by the Congress state Government on power generation and power supply.

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Singh suggested that the power cut was a conspiracy by his political opponents. He said: “This seems to be a conspiracy. Had it been a power-cut due to any technical reason, the power supply would not have been restored within a minute or so.”

When power cuts became an issue during the last elections, Congress leaders blamed “BJP-minded” employees in the power distribution companies for the power cuts, while the BJP blamed the Congress Government for failures in power distribution management.