The Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) is feeling the heat of competition from Tata Power as they are banking on Members of Parliaments (MPs) to back them and talk out Tata from poaching their high end consumers. The BEST Undertaking claims that over the past several months now, many of their consumers have migrated to Tata Power.

On February 18, the BEST Committee members claimed that their big consumers who fetch them high monthly bills are migrating to Tata Power. “We need to talk to our MPs and tell them our situation. They need to intervene and if possible tell Tata Power that BEST being their consumer, such rampant poaching of consumers will force them to think of procuring power from other sources under open access,” said Suhas Samant, BEST Committee member from Shiv Sena.