Rahul Gandhi's Wayanad Landslide Account Sparks Outrage | Over 200 Dead, Several Missing

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In Lok Sabha, LoP Rahul Gandhi says "I visited Wayanad with my sister some days back and I saw with my own eyes, the pain and suffering that resulted from this tragedy. More than 200 people are dead and a huge number of people are missing. I would like to commend the work of the Union and State Govt, NDRF, SDRF, Army, Navy, Cost Guard, Fire Department and others and assistance from the neighbouring states including Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Telangana. This is a huge tragedy. I would urge the Union Govt to support a comprehensive rehabilitation package for Wayanad including building disaster-resilient infrastructure and helping the communities. I would also like to urge the Govt to declare the Wayanad landslide as a national disaster..."

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00:00Speaker sir, thank you for permitting me to raise this issue of the

00:29tragedy in Wayanad. I visited Wayanad with my sister some days back and I saw with my

00:40own eyes the devastation, the pain and suffering that resulted from this tragedy. Almost two

00:52kilometres of the hill had just collapsed and almost a river of stones, river of mud had come

01:01down and more than 400 people, more than 200 are dead and vast number are missing but the eventual

01:19casualty is going to be 400 plus is what it seems. I'd like to commend the work of the Union and State

01:30Government, of NDRF and SDRF, of the Army, Navy and Coast Guard, District Administration, Forest

01:40Department, Fire and Rescue, Health Personnel and assistance also from the states Karnataka and

01:47Tamil Nadu, Telangana. It was also nice to see that all communities came together, everybody

02:02came together to help the people, people from different ideologies, different communities,

02:09everybody came together and helped. Landslide has cut vital roads and has made it nearly

02:20impossible for rescue teams to reach the far reaches. This is, I think, a huge tragedy sir

02:27and it's a very concentrated tragedy located in one very specific area. So I would urge the Union

02:36Government to support a comprehensive rehabilitation package for Wayanad including for

02:43building disaster resilient infrastructure and to help the affected communities. I would also like

02:49to urge the Union Government to enhance the compensation that people are getting and finally

02:57I would also like to urge the government to declare the Wayanad landslides as a national disaster.

03:03I saw it with my own eyes and I've seen many disasters. I visited many different

03:13places where disasters have taken place but it was very, very sad to see here that in a number

03:22of cases only one member of a family is remaining. Mother, father, grandmother, brother, everybody is

03:30dead and there's only one person remaining. Sometimes the person is a child, sometimes the

03:36person is an adult. So it was a real tragedy to see that and I'd like to also thank the entire

03:42house for the support that everybody has given to the people of Wayanad. Thank you.

Rahul Gandhi's Wayanad Landslide Account Sparks Outrage | Over 200 Dead, Several Missing

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