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Congress person Kanhaiya Kumar, connected Saturday (October 4, 2025), portion making a notation to the upcoming powerfulness plant astatine Pirpainti successful election-bound Bihar’s Bhagalpur district, said that the “vote thief authorities is onshore thief too”, successful a veiled excavation astatine the BJP-led authorities astatine the Centre.
“For respective days, determination were talks of a onshore survey going connected successful Bihar, and radical were doing rounds of section artifact offices, keeping their onshore papers successful hand, but the existent intent of the authorities was to place lands to beryllium grabbed and manus them implicit to their friends. Why was implicit 1,000 acres of onshore successful Bhagalpur fixed to Adani for the powerfulness task astatine the complaint of ₹1 per acre?” asked the Congress person portion addressing media persons astatine the enactment office successful Sadaqat Ashram successful Patna.
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He besides mentioned that the powerfulness task was initiated by the erstwhile United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, but later, it was virtually handed implicit to the Adani Group “under questionable terms”.
Party MLA Shakeel Ahmad Khan and spokesperson Rajesh Rathore had accompanied Mr. Kumar astatine the property meet.
Earlier, the Congress person Pawan Khera had charged that whenever and wherever Assembly elections travel and the BJP “feels they are losing the poll, they edifice to specified gifts to Adani”.
“There has been a signifier for this, arsenic successful Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, powerfulness projects were fixed to Adani Group earlier the Assembly elections there. Whenever and wherever they (BJP) consciousness they volition suffer the poll, specified gifts are fixed to the Adani Group,” helium alleged.
Mr. Kumar further questioned the powerfulness rates agreed upon for the project. “In different States, Adani Group is taking powerfulness contracts astatine a fixed complaint of ₹3-3.5 per unit, but present successful Bihar (Pirpainti), they person been awarded the declaration astatine ₹6 per unit,” helium noted.
The task is apt to beryllium commissioned wrong 5 years. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) authorities successful Bihar has allegedly “handed over” the 1,050 acres of onshore for the 2,400 MW ultra-supercritical thermal powerfulness task astatine Pirpainti successful Bhagalpur district, with a Letter of Award issued to the concern group, Mr. Kumar alleged.
“The authorities has taken the onshore from farmers connected the aged complaint but sold it to the concern location astatine the caller rate... It’s been a wide usurpation of the onshore statement too,” helium charged.
A squad from the Opposition Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) had besides precocious visited Pirpainti to hole a survey study connected the upcoming thermal powerfulness task and the onshore taken from the farmers there. The team, later, alleged usurpation of the onshore statement by the authorities and besides reported the woes of farmers whose lands were taken for the project.
“This powerfulness task is expected to make monolithic nett of astir 1 lakh crore rupees which volition present spell into the coffers of Modi ji [Prime Minister Narendra Modi], alternatively of communal radical of Bihar,” Mr. Kumar charged. He besides alleged that the “project was meant to beryllium a associated task betwixt the State and Central authorities but later, Modi authorities astatine the Centre withdrew its enactment from the project”.
Earlier, it was said that the thermal powerfulness has signed a 25-year Power Supply Agreement (PSA) with the Bihar State Power Generation Company Limited (BSPGCL) to proviso energy from its upcoming thermal powerfulness task astatine Pirpainti successful Bhagalpur district, immoderate 300 km from the State capital, Patna. In August, the statement followed a Letter of Award (LoA) issued by BSPGCL to Adani Power.
The Pirpainti thermal powerfulness task is expected to make 10,000-12,000 nonstop and indirect occupation opportunities during the operation phase, and 3,000 imperishable jobs “once it gets operational”. The ember linkage for the powerfulness task works has been awarded nether the Central government’s SHAKTI (Scheme for Harnessing and Allocating Koyla (coal) Transparently successful India) policy, which ensures substance proviso to powerfulness producers “transparently and effectively”.
