India, Oct. 19 -- Keralam is purchasing electricity at a significantly higher rate after the previous LDF government scrapped a long-term power purchase agreement, Electricity Minister Sunny Joseph said on Monday.

Addressing a press conference here, Joseph said the state was currently buying power at Rs 14.50 per unit, compared with Rs 4.29 per unit under the scrapped agreement.

He said the current procurement was from the Himachal Pradesh government and involved no private parties, ruling out the possibility of corruption in the transaction.

"It is a government-to-government transaction without the involvement of any private parties," the minister said.

Joseph also said the opposition had raised no objections to the matter in the As...