Dadri power project documents confidential: Cong

Lucknow, Oct 1 (UNI) Congress today alleged the Uttar Pradesh Government's agreement with Reliance Energy on gas-based Dadri power project has been denied to it under the Right to Information Act as maintaning secrecy was part of the State Support Agreement signed between the two parties.

UP Congress chief spokesperson Akhilesh Pratap Singh, who had applied for a copy of the agreement under RTI, today claimed his request was turned down by the power department claiming that secrecy was part of the State Support Agreement signed between UP and Reliance Energy. ''The parties shall at all times during the continuance of this agreement and for a period of three years following its termination keep all information regarding the terms and condition confidental...,'' Mr Singh said reading out the reply he had received from the information officer of the department.

''This clearly shows the Mulayam Singh Yadav government has more to hide then to show to the people of the state,'' he alleged.

The spokesperson claimed no agreement pertaining to public interest could be kept confidential. ''When details about Indo-US nuclear deal can be made public, then why cannot an agreement between a government and a power provider could be made public,'' he quipped.

He threatened to move the office of the State Chief Information Commissioner on Tuesday. ''The government used Rs 100 crore from contingency fund to acquire cultivable land to Anil Ambani...a lot of public money and farmers' lands have gone for the project, the details of which now we are told are confidential,'' he lamented.

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