New Delhi: Congress President and UPA
Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Monday has flagged off trucks carrying relief
materials for Uttarakhand flood victims. Trucks left from the party headquarters
in New Delhi. Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi also was present during the
occasion.
Top Congress leaders were present at the
AICC headquarters where Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi flagged off 24 truckloads
of relief supplies in addition to the 125 trucks already sent to Dehradun.
Besides these two, leaders present on the occasion included Delhi Chief
Minister Sheila Dikshit, Finance Minister P Chidambaram, Road Transport
Minister Oscar Fernandes and, political secretary to Congress President Ahmed
Patel, AICC General Secretaries Ambika Soni and Ajay Maken.
Sonia Gandhi had on June 19 along with
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh conducted an aerial survey of rain-ravaged areas
in Uttarkhand where flash floods have claimed over a thousand lives. So far,
80,000 people have been evacuated but more than 15,000 are still stranded
across the state.
Congress President had on Friday directed
all party MPs and MLAs to donate their one month salary for relief work in the
flood-ravaged Uttarakhand as the magnitude of the flash flood tragedy continued
to unfold taking the death toll in the rain fury to 1,000.
She
had also directed all party MPs from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha to give
Rs 10 lakh each from their MPLAD fund for carrying out relief work there,"
party's communication department in-charge Ajay Maken had told. Congress has
currently 203 members in the Lok Sabha and 72 in Rajya Sabha.
The party had also set up a PCC control
room at Dehradun to accelerate the relief work. AICC Secretary Sanjay Kapoor
and the party's wing Seva Dal's chief Mahendra Joshi have been sent to Dehradun
to monitor the work.
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