People's Democracy

Entire Party Machinery Activated For Relief Work

THE Tamil Nadu state committee of the Communist party of India (Marxist) has fielded its entire force for the relief work. All the mass organisations are also fully engaged in providing relief to the tsunami victims.

Relief funds and materials are pouring in from other state units of the Party. The West Bengal state committee has donated Rs 5 lakh for relief and sent a team of doctors to Nagapattinam. The Kerala state committee has also sent many relief teams and huge quantity of relief material to Kanyakumari district.

The Tamil Nadu state committee has given a call for a Relief Fund and has put the entire machinery into collecting funds and relief material.

KARAT’S VISIT

Karat and other leaders listening to the woes of the victims in Nagapattinam

Meanwhile, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Prakash Karat along with senior leaders of the Party visited the tsunami-affected areas in Nagapattinam district Immediately after the tragedy took place. He visited Nagore and Vellankanni, the places which took massive hits and saw the mass destruction caused by nature's fury. He also took stock of the relief work begun by the Party in these areas. Karat was accompanied by Party state secretary N Varadharajan, state secretariat members G Veeraiyan, G Ramakrishnan, K Balakrishnan and Party MLAs

Another team headed by CPI(M) central committee member, T K Rengarajan visited Kanyakumari district and accelerated the Party relief work there. In Kanyakumari district, the Party relief work is being coordinated by Party Lok Sabha member A V Bellarmine and MLAs D Mani and J Hemachandran. A team of CPI(M) MPs from Kerala, headed by Varkala Radhakrishnan also visited Kanyakumari.

Earlier a team of Bengal MPs visited the Kalpakkam atomic station near Chennai.

AIKS general secretary K Varadharajan, AIDWA general secretary Sudha Sundararaman, DYFI central leaders K N Balagopal, Tapas Sinha, and SFI president K K Ragesh also visited the affected areas and took part in the relief work.

The Party has demanded the state and central governments to urgently convene an all party meeting to coordinate the huge efforts required for relief and to start the rehabilitation measures for the affected people immediately.