Flood victims vent ire on Nitish

Statesman News Service
PATNA, Aug. 3: Fed up with annual flooding that leaves thousands of people homeless, Bihar’s flood refugees have starting giving vent to their frustration, with one group of villagers gheraoing the chief minister and assaulting a local legislator today.
Faced with a scarcity of relief materials and administrative slackness, groups of flood victims, forced to live in the open on river embankments, railway lines and on the national highways, have started mobbing officials and demonstrating on the streets.
Mr Nitish Kumar, who was reviewing the flood situation in Darbhanga today during an aerial survey following his week-long tour to Mauritius, found a hostile reception.
The message from the irate villagers was clear: “We don’t want your relief - we want a permanent solution to the flooding every year.”

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