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Wednesday, Aug 25, 2004

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Rabri's resignation sought

PATNA, AUG. 24. Assailing the Bihar government for providing 'inadequate relief' to flood-hit people and adopting repressive measures on relief-seekers, senior JD-U leader Jagannath Mishra today demanded resignation of Chief Minister Rabri Devi.

``The Chief Minister should own responsibility for inadequate distribution of relief among flood-hit people and firing on relief-seekers and resign from the post on moral ground,'' Mishra, thrice chief minister of Bihar, told reporters here.

Mishra also demanded immediate sacking of the Minister for Water Resources Development, Jagdanand Singh, for not 'properly utilising' the funds for strengthening embankments before the flood due to which embankments breached at 60 places causing large-scale devastation and claiming over 700 human lives.

The Chief Minister and water resources development minister should explain why the state government failed to utilise over Rs 290 crore for strengthening embankments to reduce the impact of flood.

He said that the government was yet to form an all-party relief committees in the districts for uniform distribution of relief materials.

Mishra, who made a survey of flood-affected districts of Madhubani, Samastipur, Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur and Sitamarhi, demanded that the government provide free ration to flood victims till the harvesting of next crop and houses under Indira Awas Yojna to those whose houses were swept away by flood. Their land rent and bank loans of farmers should also be waived.

- PTI

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