Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday urged Prime Minister Modi to declare the Kerala floods as a national calamity to provide all help to the people of Kerala.
He also asked all party MPs, MLAs, and MLCs to donate a month’s salary for flood relief in Kerala. He also asked the party units in the adjoining states like Puducheri, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka to form the relief committees to rush food, medicines, and clothes to the affected people ravaged by the worst kind of floods.
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Congress chief spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala told reporters that the Congress governments in the states have already come forward to help people of Kerala in this hour of tragedy.
Chief Minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal too on Saturday announced that all Delhi Ministers, party MLAs, and MPs will donate a month’s salary to help flood-ravaged Kerala, grappling with its worst floods since 1924.
He also urged the Delhi government employees to donate one day’s salary for the humanitarian cause, apart from appealing to the people to donate blankets, clothes and bedsheets, reports IANS.
Source: Free Press Journal
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