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‘State mismanaged flood’

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Telugu Desam Party to spend Rs.50 lakh for relief in Guntur

– Photo: T. Vijaya Kumar

LEARNING FIRST HAND: TDP chief N. Chandrababu Naidu interacting with residents of a colony in Repalle town in Guntur district on Sunday.

REPALLE (GUNTUR DT.): The State government mismanaged floodwaters in Krishna, which led to 20 lakh people getting affected, alleged TDP president Nara Chandrababu Naidu on Sunday. He said the party would spend Rs. 50 lakh for the flood-affected people of Guntur district.

Making a whirlwind tour of several flood-ravaged villages in Repalle, Bhattiprolu mandals and Repalle town, Mr. Naidu alleged gross neglect in the maintenance of the Krishna flood banks, which led to the breach at Voleru. Beginning at Srisailam, the government took a wrong step by storing more than the needed quantum of water and later not protecting the bunds by taking precautionary measures like stocking sufficient number of sandbags at vulnerable points.

The bund widening works taken up six months ago were left half way thus rendering the flood bank vulnerable to breach, he said.

Reacting to the people’s demand for a proper rehabilitation process, he promised to put pressure on the government and reminded them that had the Ministers stopped sleeping in A/C rooms during floods and kept a vigil on the bunds, things would have been different.

“If I were in power, this would not have happened,” he asserted.

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