The BJP will lock the Electricity Supply Companies (ESCOM) offices and hold an agitation if the state government fails to ensure an uninterrupted seven hours of power supply in three phases to farmers, former Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai warned on Wednesday.
Addressing a farmers’ protest organised by the BJP against the “anti-farmer attitude” of the government, he said the duty of the government was to ensure the power supply and it was not doing any favour.
“The officials would tell how the Department of Energy had been functioning. The previous BJP government had given ₹10,000 crore to the Energy Department.
