MLA accused of ignoring plight of riot victims
Source: Chronicle News Service
Kakching, May 15 2023:
Even though many individuals of Kakching area and others living beyond the district provided relief mate-rials to the displaced people taking shelter in the relief camp opened at Kakching Higher Secondary School, neither the state government nor the local MLA (Kakch-ing) has extended any help for victims of the communal riot, alleged Committee for Peace and Social Harmony, Kakching.
In a release, the Committee expressed resentment over lack of enthusiasm on the part of the authority concerned to help the victims and said that the relief camp is being run by the Committee formed by vendors of Kakching Keithel, including from the hills and the plains.
The relief camp presently has 132 inmates.
Till date, Heirok MLA Th Radheshyam and Wabagai MLA Dr U Deben have pro-vided essential materials to the relief camp while Ka-kching DC has provided 12 bags of rice, edible oil and mosquito nets.
However, the local MLA and the govern-ment are yet to provide any relief materials to the relief camp.
The Committee also termed as unfortunate and misleading about media re-ports that the Kakching MLA has been providing relief ma-terials to relief camps opened In different parts of Kakching as the people's elected rep-resentative is yet to reach out to those staying at the Kakching Higher Secondary School camp.