Union power minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday held an emergency meeting with Delhi's lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung and other top officials over the power crisis in the national capital.

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Delhi power crisis: Piyush Goyal holds emergency meeting

Union power minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday held an emergency meeting with Delhi's lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung and other top officials over the power crisis in the national capital. (PTI/PTI)

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"I called an meeting with LG and Delhi's senior government officials to tackle the power crisis. Delhi's previous government has not put in an effort in electricity department. We are suffering because of the inaction of the previous government," Goyal told reporters. (PTI/PTI)

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There will be discussion on steps to be taken to tackle the power crisis, he added. (PTI/PTI)

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The power minister said there were problems of transmission and distribution, which have not been set right for a decade. He said that Centre will give all support to solve the problem. (PTI/PTI)

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Residents across the national capital continued to reel under long outages on Monday, even as the heatwave showed no signs of abating. (PTI/PTI)

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Delhi on Monday sizzled at 45.5 degrees celsius, six notches above normal and hottest temperature for the month of June in last ten years in the city. (PTI/PTI)

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In Palam, the day temperature settled at 47.6 degrees celsius, a day after it had registered 47.8 degrees celsius, the hottest in the last 62 years. (PTI/PTI)

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Lieutenant governor's measures to mitigate the city's power crisis seemed to have little impact. Jung had on Sunday ordered rationing of power supply to malls and advised government offices to switch off ACs for an hour. (PTI/PTI)

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He said 22 AAP legislators came to Vardhna's residence and submitted a memorandum to his personal staff. (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

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Power minister slammed AAP and Congress for the protests and said that by protesting these parties are only exposing their own failures. (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

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