IN CONVERSATION WITH KARAN MAHARA BIHARI SURVIVORS FROM BETIYA SAY THAT THEIR 40-45 COLLEAGUES ARE MISSING

The Uttarakhand Congress president who is in Dharali since yesterday to interact with the affected people and assess the situation himself to analyse the magnitude of the human loss and damage and destruction to properties etc has spoken to few near and dear ones of the missing Bihari people having come from Betiya Bihar who are still at Dharali to trace their fellow ” labourers”.

While interacting with them he has been acquainted that 40 to 45 colleagues of their from Bihar who were in Dharali on the day this tragedy of ravishing flash floods occured are missing and there is no trace of them.

The Bihari relatives who spoke to the Congress president Karan Mahara when he enquired about their well being, said that on the day of the Dharali tragedy they had spoken to them over phone at 6 PM and since then they are still missing. The video has been posted in FB by Mahipal Negi from Tehri Garhwal.

It may be recalled that after three days of the tragedy while the entire government machinery , Indian Army, ITBP, BRO, NDRF, SDRF etc are busy in the relief and rehabilitation exercise and the chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami too busy with his senior bureaucrats of the state including DMs n SSPs etc there is no information about the magnitude of human loss nor damage to properties etc.

The authorities have on day one declared four as dead and fifty missing in addition to the nine soldiers of Indian Army whose entire camp at Harshil was razed to ground. There was news that 19 person from Jalgaon Maharashtra who were in Uttarakhand are also missing and several others too. Yesterday the victims of Dharali had not accepted the Rs.5000 financial compensation being given to them. They raised anti CM slogans and boycotted the officers who had come there to distribute the petty ammount of Rs.5000 cheques to the affected people.

In a social media post Mahipal Singh , FB user wrote in Hindi with the video :