Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday lashed out at Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi, saying the leaders visited Uttarakhand after the floods but not his state following the devastation caused by cyclone Phailin. Patnaik said this while addressing a women's rally in Berhampur.
It should be noted that ruling BJD today organized three massive rallies in Bhubaneswar, Sambalpur and Berhampur. The party organsied massive youth convention in Bhubaneswar, while the women and kendu leaf pluckers’ congregation e held simultaneously in Berhampur and Sambalpur respectively.
The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader said leaders of both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) visited Uttarakhand after the floods but none of them visited Odisha during a similar crisis four months ago.
Starting from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, BJP president Rajnath Singh and prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, all visited Uttarakhand.
But during the Cyclone Phailin and the subsequent floods in October, none of them visited Odisha, Patnaik said. "Are we not citizens of India?" he asked.
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