Accepting that still over 700 pilgrims from Uttar Pradesh are in the missing list of Uttarakhand tragedy, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said that his Government would do its best to trace them.
“We are in touch with the Uttarakhand Government and are making all out effort to trace the missing people. This is our priority,” Yadav said, while addressing reporters here on Wednesday.
He said the calamity that struck Uttarakhand was unparallel. “The Uttar Pradesh Government is ready to provide all relief. We have already set up helpline and control rooms and sent doctors to the hill State to help them,” Yadav said. The CM, however, refused comments on Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi’s recent visits to Uttarakhand that has sparked a political debate.’’ This is not the right time to do politics over such serious issue,’’ he said.
On this occasion Yadav also announced that religious guru Kripalu Maharaj of Mangarh Dham in Pratapgarh has donated Rs 1 crore in the CM’s Relief fund while SP MlA Shadab Fatima donated Rs 1 lakh.
Expressing his grief over the death of IAF personnel and others in the chopper crash in Uttarakhand Chief Minister announced Rs 20 lakh as compensation for two martyrs hailing from the State.