Treat it as national disaster : Rahul Gandhi on Wayanad disasters

Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi described the landslides in Wayanad district of Kerala as a “terrible tragedy” of such magnitude in a single area that the state has not seen till now.

He said that it should be treated differently and promised that the Congress party will build more than 100 houses in Wayanad.

Gandhi also mentioned that he was going to raise the matter in Delhi and with Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, as he believes that “this is a different level of tragedy and should be treated differently”.

After a meeting with officials of the district administration and the panchayat, along with Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and other senior Congress leaders, where they were briefed about the number of deaths, the houses destroyed, and the strategies to search for and rescue people, Gandhi called the destruction caused by the landslides a “national disaster” and demanded an urgent comprehensive action plan to deal with it.