left MPs from Kerala on Friday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Rajnath Singh to declare the recent temple fireworks tragedy in Kollam wherein 114 people were killed as a national disaster.
In a letter, the MPs said the declaration of national disaster would help the affected people and region's rehabilitation and relief works in much better way.
The MPs pointed out that more than 1,600 people are facing several kinds of ailments and undergoing treatments in several hospitals. Detailing the hardships and need of rehabilitation in the Paravur region in Kollam district the parliamentarians said road, infrastructure, health, communication, drinking water, electricity in the area have to be normalized.
CPI(M) MPs P Karunakaran, A Sampath, MB Rajesh, CP Narayanan, PK Sreemathy, KK ragesh, PK Biju, K Somaprasad, Innocent and Joyce George signed the memorandum to the Centre. Declaring of the tragedy as national disaster would only help in such massive rehabilitation, they said.