Power minister explains

This time around lawmakers of BNP and Jamaat also came down strongly on the state minister for failing to improve the power situation. This again, we find, a belated reaction of the comrades-in-arms. Where were these alliance government lawmakers all these years when media headlines screamed loudly about the crisis giving details of how frequent power outage was causing irreparable damage to the industrial production, especially in garment factories, and to the agriculture, health and education sectors?

Is it because of the ire of the public in their own areas that they are now asking him openly in parliament? And are they ready to ask the state minister for answers regarding the allegation that huge sums have been spent in the last four and a half years but not a single megawatt of power has been added to the national grid?

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Power crisis has been stalking this nation for many years now. True, it was also there during the tenure of the immediate past government but most are of the opinion that never before the problem looked so ominous as it does today. Now that the state minister has come out with his own statement, we wonder, why has he been giving all sorts of incredible arguments and counter arguments for the last four plus years to justify the abysmal mismanagement of his ministry beating all previous records?