Srinagar, Jan. 25 -- While the authorities are making claims of restoration of power supply, most of the rural areas, including Tangmarg, Pattan, Sopore, Baramulla, Kulgam, Shopian, Tral, Anantnag and other districts are still without electricity.

"We are groping in darkness, inverters have died, candles are on," said a retied lecturer from Bandi Payeen, a village in Baramulla.

Same was the response from Shopian upper reaches. People in Kareva Manlo are missing the current from two days and identical stories are poring in from Kokernag and Pulwama areas.

Though the government has been making tall claims about restoration of road and power connectivity, the ground reality negates all these claims.

"I think, the government is being fed ...