Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday, 30 April, took to Twitter to hit out at the Narendra Modi-led Union government over its management of the power and coal crisis faced by several states during the ongoing heatwave.
"Government has found the perfect solution" for the power crisis - "cancel passenger trains and run coal rakes! Modi hai, mumkin hai," the Rajya Sabha MP wrote on Twitter.
"Abundant coal, large rail network, unutilised capacity in thermal plants. Yet, there is acute power shortage Modi Government cannot be blamed. It is because of 60 years of Congress rule!" Chidambaram said in a tweet laced with sarcasm.
"There is no incompetence in the Ministries of Coal, Railway or Power. The blame lies with past Congress ministers of the said departments!" he continued.