Agartala, May 29 (Reporter) Two days after cyclone Remal hit Tripura, power supply in many places across the state, including several locations in the capital city of Agartala, has not yet been restored, which irked the citizens and prompted them to resort to agitation. The families have been running out of water supplies for two days in major parts of Agartala. Many lawyers came out of court and demonstrated on the street on Wednesday in the Fire Service Chowmuhani of the city, close to the Chief Minister’s house, protesting the power cut. “Proceedings in the West Tripura district and sessions court, along with other subsidiary courts, were badly affected on Tuesday due to a power cut from the previous night. The electricity supply remained disrupted today. Several serious cases are not being heard, and the judges' offices couldn’t function due to prolonged power cuts,” alleged agitating lawyers. Allegedly, nobody responded to the calls in Tripura State Electricity Corporation Ltd. (TSECL) offices across the state. The toll-free number was kept disconnected, and other numbers remained unanswered for the last two days. The TSECL call offices in the villages were shut down for the last two days to prevent public outrage. However, Power Minister Ratan Lal Nath claimed that TSECL officials and the staff of outsourced power restoration agencies have been working relentlessly since Monday night, even during the worst weather, but the damages were so large and widespread that they couldn’t manage it and said, “Besides the snapping of power lines and damage to transformers, the entire system in many places collapsed due to lightning.” He said the initial assessment revealed that Remal caused damage to more than the electricity infrastructure worth Rs 2.50 crore and claimed the power department received over 2000 complaints, and more than half of them have been resolved so far. As many as 668 electric poles were destroyed, 234 km of lines were powerless, wires were damaged, and 82 transformers were found malfunctioning. The minister said, "The power demand was increased in the Agartala periphery in the month of May due to severe heat waves this year. The use of ACs in homes increased manifolds without informing the power department, which caused an increase in power consumption and damaged power transformers, transmission lines, and sudden storms and lightning made the system fragile and vulnerable.” Meanwhile, leader of the opposition and senior CPI-M leader Jitendra Chaudhury alleged that under the BJP's rule, the most lucrative TSECL were looted by the cadres, and to secure their business, they leased out the service to private companies from outside and added, “The Left Front built the asset of TSECL fighting against several odds over two decades, and now nothing remained. There has been no recruitment for the last six years at the lower level, which caused the suffering today...////...