Telangana Chief Minster KCR, plans to waive off, all the existing power and water bills, in the greater limit, keeping in mind the upcoming GHMC elections.
 
GHMC elections are the next target of the political parties in the Telugu states. No party is in a stage of sacrificing the GHMC elections. Especially, the opposition parties in Telangana, are more strict of performing better in these elections, as they could not even get the deposits in Warangal by-polls. They are treating these elections as the prestige issue.

TRS party who smelled this, on the beforehand, is carrying out its best strategies, to make people fall into their baskets.

As a part of the strategy, KCR met Talasani Srinivas Yadav, Padma Rao and few other water board officials yesterday, and discussed about the proposals of water and power waiving in the greater limits.

The officials specified KCR, that, as of now, there are Rs. 128 crores of power debts and Rs. 290 crores of water debts. So, KCR had decided to waive off all the Rs. 420 crores of debts.
   
He said that, as currently, there is MLC election code, a notification on the same cannot be issued, but assured to issue it, after the end of the code.

6 lakh power consumers and 3 lakh water consumers are going to be benefited, if the bills are waived off.  
 
The reason behind waiving off the power and water bills, is to attract the people to vote for TRS, in the upcoming GHMC elections and that is an open secret.

On the other side, a few opine that, the government should support those, who cannot afford to pay the bills, but not support everyone, as it gives a negative signal to those, who are paying the bills in time.

The analysts intend that, this kind of waiving off the bills during the elections, will encourage the regular payers from omitting to pay the bills, and thus wait for the government to waive off.

By Phani Ch