Thiruvananthapuram:
Opposition leader
Ramesh Chennithala met Governor P Sathasivam on Friday and sought his intervention to prompt the state government to order a judicial probe into the lapses in discharging water from dams that allegedly led to the floods. He said the tribunal with six months tenure should be headed by a high court judge.
After meeting the governor,
Chennithala said he approached the governor as he felt that there was no point in raising the issue with the government and in the assembly.
“The ravaging waters have devoured close to 500 lives with millions left totally helpless. Thousands of hectares of crops, roads, power supply, buildings, and vehicles have been damaged leaving the people of the state in total disarray and despair. The flash floods have cut hundreds of roads into halves, pushed bridges to oblivion and water bodies to overflow washing away everything on their way. The damage to the state economy is unfathomable,” Chennithala said in the memorandum.
He alleged that one of the prime reasons for that unprecedented calamity was the unscientific and ill-planned opening of shutters 34 of the major dams in the state.
