Hyderabad, June 27, 2013: The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) will continue its relief works for the victims of Uttarakhand floods until all of them reached home safely and the local party leaders visited their houses to enquire about their health. The leaders, including MLAs and Assembly constituency in-charges, were also supposed to supply medicines to the victims and instil courage in them, party president N. Chandrababu Naidu said in his teleconference with them from Dehradun on Wednesday.

He spoke to relief monitoring committee members of NTR Trust Bhavan, district party presidents, MPs and leaders based at Badrinath, Dehradun and New Delhi.

When Mr. Naidu made Adilabad MP Ramesh Rathod speak to some of the victims from Badrinath, one of them said over phone that 350 Telugu-speaking people were trapped for the past ten days. Mr. Naidu sent a medical team of NTR Memorial Trust to Badrinath from Dehradun.

He also instructed that Rs. 4 lakh be distributed to the pilgrims at Badrinath to meet their food expenses. Their details should be put on TDP website and their relatives be kept informed. The website should also contain details of donations received and other expenses.

Meanwhile, the trust chief executive officer Venkat said in a release that Rs. 45 lakh was received from various donors to meet the flight expenses of the victims.

TDP vice-president E. Peddi Reddy and polit bureau member Y. Ramakrishnudu, in separate releases, demanded criminal cases to be filed against Union Minister Balram Naik and Congress MP V. Hanumanth Rao for setting obstacles to pilgrims who were trying to take the flight arranged by the TDP.

It showed the intolerance of the Congress to relief works being taken up by the TDP.

Source: The Hindu, DT. June 27, 2013.