New Delhi: Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday advised VIPs not to visit rain-ravaged Uttarakhand saying such visits created difficulties in relief and rescue operations.
"We advise all VIPs not to visit Uttarakhand now. All agencies are engaged in relief and rescue efforts...Such visits hamper their works," he told reporters in Delhi.
Mr Shinde's advice came on a day when Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi was visiting the disaster-hit hill state.
A stream of VIPs have visited Uttarakhand in the wake of the natural disaster to oversee relief and rescue operations.
Representatives of several other state governments too have toured Uttarakhand.
"We advise all VIPs not to visit Uttarakhand now. All agencies are engaged in relief and rescue efforts...Such visits hamper their works," he told reporters in Delhi.
Mr Shinde's advice came on a day when Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi was visiting the disaster-hit hill state.
A stream of VIPs have visited Uttarakhand in the wake of the natural disaster to oversee relief and rescue operations.
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Representatives of several other state governments too have toured Uttarakhand.
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