With the state of Kerala being badly affected by massive floods, the INC President, Rahul Gandhi writes a letter to PM Modi expressing his concern over the flood situation in Kerala. Hilly and coastal districts of Idukki, Wayanad, Kottayam, Alappuzha, Ernakulam, and Kozhikode have borne extensive damage due to this natural disaster. State Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has visited flood-affected areas. His helicopter had landed in Wayanad, Kerala and previously he had to cancel his proposed visit to the Idukki, as authorities declined request citing ‘incessant rain’.
In the letter to the Prime Minister, Rahul Gandhi mentions about the torrential rains, floods and wide-scale landslides that have left behind ‘a trail of destruction across the state’. Terming the current state as the ‘most severe disaster in the last five decades’ Gandhi exerts that this natural calamity has resulted in ‘massive economic and human losses.’
“I request you to release sufficient funds immediately to the state government, to enable the state to respond effectively, and work towards restoring critical infrastructure,” Gandhi said in his letter to Modi.
The floods in Kerala have caused widespread devastation in the state, killing many people. So far 29 people have been reported to have lost their lives in the heavy rains since 8 August and over 50,000 persons have been shifted to relief camps. The politician has also written in his letter that, the fishermen community is one of the worst groups affected and this disaster has dealt a “deadly blow” to them at a time when the fishing industry is yet to recover from the adverse impact of Ocki cyclone. Incessant rains have forced the state to open the shutters of 24 dams, and the resultant deluge is likely to cause massive destruction in downstream areas. As many as 60 tourists, including 20 foreigners, who were stranded at a private resort in Munnar in Kerala’s Idukki district, have been rescued.
“Unprecedented rainfall has created havoc in Kerala, destroying property and forcing thousands to abandon their homes. I urge each and every Congress worker in Kerala to step up and help those in need. My prayers and thoughts are with the people of Kerala in this difficult time,” he earlier tweeted on 11th August with regard to the situation.
my prayers and thought are with the people of kerala in difficult time number of persons lost their lives and get affected with the heavy rain fall and flood situation in kerala government provided them the amount of required compensation some of them damaged the property and rescue operation takes place and people are shifted to the safer places during this catastrophic incidence people felt themself insecure almost all states send them food clothings medicines and other required items all of them helped intentionally government too provide them relief funds by all means this type of happening never happen before yet the situation is grim in the kerala the meterological department said that flood like situation may occur but there was no other alternate