Tarun Karthick
Sri Vijaya Puram, 07 August 2025
The CPI(M) Port Blair City Area Committee organized a mass demonstration this night in entrance of the workplace of the Superintending Engineer, Electricity Department at Phoenix Bay, protesting towards frequent and extended energy cuts affecting Port Blair and close by rural areas of South Andaman.
Numerous occasion employees, sympathizers, and members of most people participated within the protest, voicing their discontent over the deteriorating energy provide state of affairs within the area.
Inaugurating the demonstration, D. Ayyappan, Secretary of the CPI(M) Andaman and Nicobar State Organising Committee, blamed the continuing energy disaster on the “unfavourable and wrong policies” of the Modi-led central authorities. He said that the 11 years of BJP rule on the Centre had led to the “total collapse of the power sector” within the islands. Ayyappan significantly highlighted the extreme affect of unscheduled energy disruptions on college students, girls, senior residents, and people with well being points.
Referring to a latest assembly with the Union Power Minister, which he attended together with CPI(M) MP R. Sachithanantham from Tamil Nadu, Ayyappan mentioned they’d urged the Minister to offer extra diesel generator units to briefly tackle the disaster till bigger tasks just like the LNG-based energy plant grow to be operational. However, the Union Minister reportedly rejected the proposal, citing excessive prices related to diesel energy era.
CPI(M) State Secretariat Member D. Laxman Rao introduced that the occasion will maintain a Candlelight Procession on ninth August 2025 at 5:30 PM, ranging from the Gandhi Statue at Mohanpura, to additional draw consideration to the general public’s hardships brought on by the persistent energy cuts.
Addressing the gathering, State Secretariat Member B. Chandrachoodan criticized the present Member of Parliament for failing to deal with the urgent points confronted by islanders. P. Sathyapal, Secretary of the CPI(M) Port Blair City Area Committee, together with SP Kalairajan, led the demonstration and known as out what he termed as “hollow promises” made by the BJP authorities over the previous eleven years.
