Hyderabad, March 12 -- Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Working President KT Rama Rao on Thursday wrote to Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, demanding "urgent and coordinated intervention" over the shortage of commercial LPG cylinders in Telangana.

While backing the Centre's decision to invoke the Essential Commodities Act, KTR recommended freezing commercial cylinder prices for the duration of the "crisis" and having a public real-time availability dashboard.

In his letter to Union Minister Hardeep Puri, the BRS leader wrote, "The acute shortage of commercial LPG cylinders has created a crisis of significant proportions, one that demands urgent, coordinated intervention from the Ministry and the committee it has consti...