With growing incidents of angry citizens spilling over to the streets — demanding restoration of basic infrastructure like power and water — six days after the severe cyclone Amphan hit and paralysed large parts of southern Bengal, Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Chowdhury has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting for deployment of more Army personnel as the State Government had failed to rise up to the occasion. 

Claiming that there was no “tangible” improvement of situation post Amphan devastation and that the distribution of food and other measures were “awfully inadequate” the Behrampore MP requested the Prime Minister to deploy more Army personnel to deal with the situation.

He wrote “…there is no tangible improvement… of post Amphan devastation which has assumed catastrophic dimension. Distribution of food and relief to those affected areas are awfully inadequate.”

State Opposition leader and veteran Congress man Abdul Mannan who too sat on dharna at places in Hooghly said that the “aids sent in by the State Government are too little and too inadequate… let alone the relief the Government has not been able to bring back power and clear the roads by removing trees.”            

Wondering what the TMC youth brigade who are seen on streets during the elections with bombs and sticks were doing to reach relief to the people Marxist leadership said “the TMC men are good only to loot votes and not to reach relief.      

 “They will crowd the government offices only when crores of rupees will be sanctioned to reconstruct roads and paint the park walls.”

BJP State president Dilip Ghosh said “the youth and the local clubs which get lakhs of rupees as donation every year from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee are doing now. Why have they disappeared now…”wondering “whether the cash received in donation by the clubs actually change hands and go to specific persons.”