Sri Vijaya Puram, Aug 7: CPI (M) Port Blair City Area Committee has organised a Mass Demonstration today (7.8.2025) evening in front of the office of the Superintending Engineer, Electricity Department at Phoenix Bay to protest against the frequent power cut at Port Blair and nearby rural South Andaman areas. A large number of party workers, sympathizers and general public participated in the mass demonstration.
Inaugurating the Mass Demonstration, D. Ayyappan, Secretary, CPI (M) A & N State Orgnaising Committee said that the present power cut is due to the unfavourable and wrong policies followed by the Modi-government towards the power sector in Andaman & Nicobar Islands. People in general and College and school students, women, aged and unhealthy people in particular are the worst sufferers due to the unscheduled power disruptions at Port Blair and rural South Andaman areas. He said that 11 years of Modi rule at the centre led to the total collapse of the power sector in the islands. He further said that during his recent meeting with the Union Power Minister along with R. Sachithanantham, CPI (M) MP from Tamil Nadu, he had requested the Minister to provide more diesel generation sets to tide over the power crisis in the islands till the Mega projects like LNG Project are implemented, but the Minister of Power had instantly ruled out any more diesel generating sets in the islands considering the high cost of production.
CPI (M) State Secretariat Member D. Laxman Rao said that the CPI (M) will conduct a Candle Light Procession at 5.30 p.m. on 9th August, 2025 from the Gandhi Statue at Mohanpura to draw the attention of the authorities towards sufferings of the people due to power disruption. Addressing the participants in the Mass Demonstration, B. Chandrachoodan, State Secretariat Member briefly explained the failure of the Member of Parliament from the islands in resolving any of the issues faced by the islanders. P. Sathyapal, Secretary, Port Blair City Area Committee, who along with SP Kalairajan led the mass demonstration, while addressing the gathering briefly explained the hollow promises made by the BJP.