Tejashwi Yadav says centre should declare Bihar Flood as national disaster, wants PM to visit state
PTI, Jul 21, 2019, 9:31 AM IST
Ranchi: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday said the Centre should declare the flood and drought situations in Bihar as national disaster and a financial assistance of Rs 10,000 crore to the state. The death toll in Bihar flood rose to 97 on Saturday, as over 69 lakh people were affected in 12 districts.
The former Bihar deputy chief minister along with senior RJD leaders Sivanand Tiwari and Raghuvansh Prasad Singh met jailed RJD president Lalu Prasad, at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) here. Prasad who is serving sentence in several fodder scam cases is under treatment at the hospital for multiple ailments.
Responding to a query on formation of a separate party recently by a section of the RJD’s Jharkhand unit, Tejashwi said there are some opportunistic and over-ambitious elements in the party and it happens during election time.
Led by dissident leader Goutam Sagar Rana, a group of party leaders had formed Rashtriya Janata Dal (Loktantrik) and Rana reportedly met JMM working president Hemant Soren on Friday.
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