CM has failed to get additional funds for U.T., says Vaithilingam
The Hindu
Amount released was a pittance: Congress MP
Member of Parliament V. Vaithilingam on Wednesday said Chief Minister N. Rangasamy has failed to obtain additional funds from the Centre despite being in an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Addressing a press conference here, the senior Congress leader said the Assembly election campaign by the NDA in the Union Territory was centred on the idea that people of the Union Territory would benefit if same political formation ruled the Centre and Puducherry. But nothing substantial had happened to prove that, he charged.
Mr. Vaithilingam said that to a question on rain assistance that he raised in Parliament, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai had responded that the rain in November led to two deaths, loss of 72 livestock, damage to 346 houses, huts and crops in 4,040 hectares in the Union Territory.