Calamity aid demanded for JE

State general secretary of Communist Party (ML) Akhilendra Pratap Singh has demanded that national calamity aid and norms should be made applicable for rescue and rehabilitation of encephalitis affected people in eastern Uttar Pradesh.

State general secretary of Communist Party (ML) Akhilendra Pratap Singh has demanded that national calamity aid and norms should be made applicable for rescue and rehabilitation of encephalitis affected people in eastern Uttar Pradesh.

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Addressing a huge rally of party workers at Townhall crossing on Tuesday, Singh criticised the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and said delegation of MPs from all the parties should have been sent in encephalitis affected areas of Gorakhpur and Basti division to take stock of the situation.

Singh also condemned the national leaders of opposition parties for their mysterious silence over this issue. He said people of eastern UP were not insects that state government has preferred to keep a blind eye on the deaths reported by the media. Terming it criminal negligence of Mulayam Singh Yadav led government, Singh demanded that Union government should directly intervene in this issue to tackle encephalitis as the ill capability of state government has been exposed.

Presiding over the rally, member of state working committee of CPI (ML) Comrade Yashwant Singh said when the peoples were dying in Gorkhpur, the celebration of Samajwadi Party activists over completing two years tenure was ridiculous. Terming it a cruel joke with poor peoples he said on September 23, activists of party would oppose chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadava wearing black ribbon.

Earlier thousands of activists from Kushinagar, Deoria and Maharajganj reached Townhall crossing having red flags in their hands.