Terming it “fairly a tough day” he mentioned, “It is a horrible tragedy for Wayanad, for Kerala and the nation.We’ve come right here to see the scenario, it is fairly a painful expertise to see how many individuals have misplaced their members of the family, misplaced homes. It’s totally tough to talk to folks in these circumstances as a result of actually, you do not know what to say to them. It has been fairly a tough day for me, however we’re going to attempt to assist, and ensure the survivors get what’s their due.”
“I really feel how I felt when my father died. I bear in mind what I felt when my father died … and right here folks haven’t simply misplaced a father, they’ve misplaced their total household,” Rahul mentioned after assembly the victims alongside together with his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
Rahul, in actual fact mentioned the sensation was worse than the one he had after the demise of his father and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
“I do know what I felt (on the time of father’s demise) and that is a lot worse than that, and it is not one one who is feeling it, it is hundreds of people who find themselves feeling it,” the Congress MP mentioned.
“It is a horrible tragedy for Wayanad, for Kerala and for the nation. We’ve come right here to see the scenario, it is fairly a painful expertise to see how many individuals have misplaced their members of the family, misplaced homes. It’s totally tough to talk to folks in these circumstances as a result of actually, you do not know what to say to them. It has been fairly a tough day for me, however we’re going to attempt to assist, and ensure the survivors get what’s their due. Lots of people need to be relocated, so I hope the federal government takes that under consideration,” he added.
His sister Priyanka Gandhi, who additionally visited the affected web site and and met the victims within the hospital mentioned, “I really feel similar to what my brother feels. We’ve spent the entire day assembly individuals who have suffered. It is an immense tragedy. We are able to solely think about the type of ache that persons are struggling.”
Including that the go to is to supply all the assistance that they will, Priyanka mentioned, “We’re right here to provide as a lot consolation and assist as we will to assist in any approach we will, and I’m additionally very proud to see how all people is coming collectively, not simply from Wayanad and Kerala, however from the entire nation to assist people who find themselves going by means of this.”
Their father and former PM Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in a suicide bombing in Tamil Nadu, India on 21 Could 1991.
The BJP, nevertheless, took a jibe on the go to by the Gandhis calling it ‘tragedy tourism’. Occasion IT head Amit Malviya on X mentioned, “Somebody wants to inform Third Time Fail Rahul Gandhi that Wayanad is ravaged by a tragedy, which may have been averted, had he finished the needful as an MP.”
Sharing a photograph of the go to Malviya mentioned, “However he appears to suppose it’s a picture op. Take a look at the variety of cameras accompanying Balak Buddhi. Gandhis love Tragedy Tourism.”
After Lok Sabha election outcomes 2024, Rahul Gandhi let go his Wayanad seat with a view to retain household bastion Rae Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh. The occasion introduced that Priyanka Gandhi will debut in energetic politics by contesting bypolls of this Lok Sabha seat.
Each Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi visited the landslide-affected space of Chooralmala in Kerala’s Wayanad. Additionally they met the victims on the Group Well being Centre in Meppadi.
The demise toll within the tragedy has crossed over 280 on Thursday and the rescue operations are nonetheless underway.
