Politicians from the Congress and the BJP have tried to mine the disaster for political expediency. Today, they struck a new low with a litany of vicious tweets.
Here's the Twitter trail:
The UKD CM missed out on the Met Dept warnings. Residents too suffered heavily. He has not even reached out to them till today. Can he 3/n
- Nirmala Sitharaman (@nsitharaman) July 1, 2013
...Can't be tolerated. The CM has failed his people. The Centre should monitor every bit of relief & rescue. It is a national disaster2/n
- Nirmala Sitharaman (@nsitharaman) July 1, 2013
Unwanted issue being made out of Sushma ji's tweet. She's not asking for President's rule, nor for a BJP govt. Inept handling in UKD 1/n
- Nirmala Sitharaman (@nsitharaman) July 1, 2013
...Continue in office? UKD people have lost home, kith&kin,livelihood. Govt expects them to walk to relief camps begging for help! 4/n
- Nirmala Sitharaman (@nsitharaman) July 1, 2013
The Central Govt's flip flop too showed that they were giving knee-jerk responses. Sushma ji has only raised these issues.
- Nirmala Sitharaman (@nsitharaman) July 1, 2013
Those who cannot govern in crisis do not deserve to be in the Government even for a day.
- Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwarajbjp) July 1, 2013
What has your state Government done ? Nothing. The living are starving. The dead are being robbed. And you are patting your back.
- Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwarajbjp) July 1, 2013
All rescue operations have been done by Army, airforce and ITBP. They have done this at the cost of their lives. I salute them.
- Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwarajbjp) July 1, 2013
Instead of helping in relief works in U'khand, don't try to use this calamity as a Political Opportunity! #NoPoliticsOverCalamity
- Ajay Maken (@ajaymaken) July 1, 2013
@SushmaSwarajbjp Pyre of many Victims of this Natural Calamity still warm. First BJP tried to take credit of evacuating 15000 in a day!1/2
- Ajay Maken (@ajaymaken) July 1, 2013
When we enforce accountability, you call it politics. We will not allow you this escape route to hide your failures.
- Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwarajbjp) July 1, 2013
The truth is that I woke you up about the scale of tragedy when I spoke to Home Minister on 18th June and tweeted about this.
- Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwarajbjp) July 1, 2013
He went to the extent of saying that nobody including himself was allowed to land anywhere.
- Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwarajbjp) July 1, 2013
We did not go to Uttarakhand because Home Minister made a public statement that our visit will hamper the rescue effort.
- Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwarajbjp) July 1, 2013
Unfortunately, the Government in Delhi has also failed to provide the requisite leadership.
- Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwarajbjp) July 1, 2013
They ought to be dismissed for being inept and incompetent.
- Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwarajbjp) July 1, 2013
I am sorry to say that the Government in Uttarakhand has not been able to rise to the occasion.
- Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwarajbjp) July 1, 2013
This from a party that criticizes visits of Congress leadership: Manish Tewari
- ANI (@ANI_news) July 1, 2013
Did anyone see LOPs in both houses express sympathy/visit disaster hit U'khand: Manish Tewari
- ANI (@ANI_news) July 1, 2013
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