JAMMU: Congress president Sonia Gandhi today said both the Centre and the Jammu and Kashmir Government should work jointly to rehabilitate people affected due to flash floods that hit the state.
“Presently, the larger question is how to rehabilitate the flood affected people and how to provide space to them to re-built there houses,” Ms Gandhi told reporters here this afternoon.
Ms Gandhi along with Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi was on a two-day visit to the state to assess the flood situation on ground.
She said the state and the Centre need to work together in the welfare and rehabilitation of flood victims. She added that immediate relief was being done, adding, “The party workers, Congress leaders and NGOs have been very active in distributing relief.” Ms Gandhi added that she had met Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who had said a detailed report has been prepared on flood situation, damage, relief and other requirements, which will soon be submitted to the Centre. Earlier on a question regarding satisfaction over relief process in flood-hit state, she said, “I do not want to play politics on this issue.”
However, on NCP leader Sharad Pawar’s allegations that NCP-Congress alliance break down was due to Mr Gandhi, the she said, “Neither because of me, Rahul and Congress, the alliance has ended.”
Ms Gandhi, who was flanked by leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, JKPCC chief Saif-ud-Din Soz, Congress general secretary Ambika Soni, met the flood-affected people and interacted with them.
She assured all help to them from her party. Earlier in Poonch while interacting with the victims, Mr Gandhi demanded that the relief pattern to the flood affected should be on the pattern of 2013 Uttrakhand disaster in which thousands of people died and hoped that the Centre would soon consider it.
Tight security arrangements were also in place for their Jammu visit. During the period, they visited Kashmir, Poonch and Jammu.
(AGENCIES)
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