Will write to Kerala CM on Wayanad rehabilitation: Priyanka

Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday said she would write to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and put as much as pressure on the Centre to provide the rehabilitation of Wayanad landslide victims.

“But I would like to urge both the Prime Minister and the Chief Minister to provide this rehabilitation, regardless of politics,” she while addressing a meeting at Kalpetta here.

The Congress general secretary said she would ask them to recognise that what happened there was beyond any kind of politics. “What happened here was a deep and devastating human tragedy,” she stated.

Priyanka, who was on a two-day visit to the hill constituency after being elected, highlighted the issues of the massive landslide that hit here on July 30 along with launching a scathing attack against the BJP-led Centre.

Due to what happened in the landslide and the amount of publicity across India many people still believe that it is unsafe to come here but they don’t realise the nature’s fury concentrated in a very small geographical area and the rest is beautiful place and is absolutely safe to visit, she pointed out.

“We must make a special effort now to invite more tourists to show them that it is safe, it is beautiful and this is the best place to come,” she urged.

Priyanka said the UDF, the INDIA alliance and the Congress are engaged in a big battle to save the institutions of democracy from the destructiveness of the BJP and its policies.

Earlier, criticising the BJP-led Centre, she said today the fight is against the force that is weakening the rights of the people and handing over them to a few “businessmen friends”.

Addressing a meeting in Mananthavady here, she said, “We are fighting against a force that is doing everything in its power to destroy the institutions upon which our country was built.”