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| As power is restored in India, |
| As power is restored in India, the 'Blame Game' over blackouts heats up
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| INDIA
, 2-August-2012
2:19:34 AM |
| As electric power was restored across northern India on Wednesday, political jockeying over who was to blame for the widespread blackouts intensified.
The nation's new power minister distanced himself from assertions by his predecessor that state officials were responsible for Monday and Tuesday's blackouts by drawing more power for their regions than they were allotted. But the former power minister, who was promoted in a cabinet reshuffle, kept right on making those claims
"I don't think one can have a blame game between the state and the center," said the new minister, Veerappa Moily.
Hours later, Mr. Moily's predecessor, Sushil Kumar Shinde, again blasted the state governments. "The grid failed because of the overloading of the power," he said, contending that "many states" try to take more power than scheduled.
Mr. Shinde was promoted to home minister on Tuesday. Despite presiding over two of the biggest blackouts in human history, Mr. Shinde declared himself to have been an "excellent" power minister.
Rather than focus on the loss of power, people should appreciate that power was restored across India within a matter of hours, Mr. Shinde said.
His statements were mocked by a number of political observers and became grist for severe criticism from opposition lawmakers. Prakash Javadekar, a spokesman for the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, said that the government was merely trying to divert attention from its own incompetence.
"The unprecedented grid failure is a result of negligence, incompetence and complete abdication of duty on the part of the central government," Mr. Javadekar said.
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