‘24-hour power’ meets 12-hour maths
The Congress government says farm power is 24 hours. BRS leaders say farmers are getting 10–12. The record shows one thing clearly: the 24-hour promise is on paper; the 12-hour claim isn’t on file.
The official record carries the 24-hour claim; the 10–12-hour counterclaim remains undocumented.
The Congress-run Telangana government keeps saying farmers get 24-hour free power. That is the official line in a January 2024 press note, in the Governor’s Republic Day speech (“24 hour quality free power is being supplied to the farmers…”), and again on the Independence Day page this year. Those are government documents, not WhatsApp forwards.
The distribution company’s own 2023–24 annual report adds the history lesson: “We have been supplying 24*7 free power to agricultural consumers since 1st January 2018,” and marked six years of it on January 1, 2024. That establishes the programme as policy and operation — in the company’s telling.
Now the counterclaim. At a BRS presser, former minister Sunitha Laxma Reddy said “officials themselves” admit farmers are getting only 10–12 hours. Strong line — but the names, feeder logs or circulars where those “officials” said it are not in the record we can point you to. TSERC’s older filings do flag a real problem: most farm pumps aren’t metered, which makes verifying exact hours messy. Useful context. Not proof.
So here’s the scoreboard we can source: the Congress government has loudly put 24 hours on the record; the 10–12-hour figure is a political charge without the paperwork attached yet. If the BJP wants to heckle from Delhi or the TDP from Amaravati, they can start by showing a single feeder log — Telangana will bring the files, they can bring something besides slogans.