NEW DELHI: Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday led a protest at Parliament’s Makar Dwar alongside opposition MPs from Kerala, demanding monetary help for the landslide-affected folks of Wayanad.
The opposition MPs carried banners that learn, “Justice for Wayanad, Present reduction package deal for Wayanad” and “Wayanad ko nyay do, bedbav na karein,” whereas elevating slogans corresponding to “cease discrimination towards Kerala.”
Chatting with the reporters, Priyanka Gandhi mentioned, “We’re very disturbed by the truth that the federal government is refusing to provide the particular reduction package deal to Wayanad. We have now requested the PM, everybody, to declare that this can be a calamity of extreme nature and provides a particular package deal.”
She continued that comparable large-scale destruction has occurred in Himachal Pradesh, “the place Congress is in energy. They’ve been demanding for the longest time that the Centre helps and provides help that’s required to victims. The entire authorities has seen devastation, ache and struggling.”
“But, simply due to politics, in each instances the central authorities is refusing to do what’s as a result of victims. They’re residents of India. There needs to be no discrimination throughout pure disasters,” the MP from Wayanad added.
Kerala skilled its deadliest landslide on July 30, claiming over 300 lives and inflicting widespread destruction to houses and infrastructure. The catastrophe severely impacted the residents of Mundakkai and Chooralmala areas.
Taking to X, the Kerala Congress celebration had posted a video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi cruising down the Ganga whereas inspecting Maha Kumbh preparations in Prayagraj. The celebration captioned the put up, “Father of democracy caught on digicam skipping Parliament session and roaming round.”
Earlier on Friday, the Congress MP made her debut speech in Lok Sabha, taking heart stage in the course of the Structure debate. She led the Congress cost towards PM Modi and accused the NDA authorities of creating each effort to dismiss the Structure within the final 10 years.
The Congress chief raised the problem of latest violence in Sambhal and Manipur, Lok Sabha outcomes and the Structure to nook the BJP authorities. She mentioned, “Right now persons are intimidated from talking the reality. Be it a journalist or an opposition chief or a college professor everybody’s mouth is shut. Opposition leaders are investigated by ED, CBI, IT and are despatched to jail by making false allegation.”
“This authorities has spared nobody. Their media machine spreads lies and makes accusations,” she added.
