Extending a helping hand to the flood-ravaged residents of Uttarakhand, the BJP legislators in Uttar Pradesh have decided to donate their one day salary towards the relief work being carried out in the hill state.
BJP has 47 members in the state assembly and seven in state legislative council. The party workers have also been asked to collect financial help during party’s five-day long anti-government agitation in form of Jail Bharo – that will start from June 26. Making this announcement here, state BJP president laxmi Kant Bajpayi said collection boxes would be kept at agitation points and workers would be asked to donate as per their wishes. This amount thus collected would be sent as financial assistance from the UP BJP, he said here on Thursday.
The state unit of BJP will also assist the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh that has already set up relief camps in Uttarakhand. “Direction have been issued to the party workers in western UP to extend helping hand to RSS,” Dr Bajpai said.
He said at a later stage the state BJP would also send clothes, food articles and other essential commodities to the people of Uttarakhand. BJP has 47 members in the assembly and seven in legislative council.