Union minister and Bihar BJP president Nityanand Rai on Saturday called upon party leaders and workers to extend all help to the families of those suffering from brain fever or heat stroke "without using the party emblem or banner or any type of pomp and show".
Rai said this here at a meeting which was attended by senior leaders like Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi and national general secretary (organization) Ram Lal.
The meeting began with the partymen observing a two- minute silence as an expression of grief over deaths in heat wave and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES).
Heat wave and AES claimed over 100 and 200 lives respectively in the state.
Addressing the meeting, Ram Lal said, "The primary characteristic of our organization has been its commitment to serving the nation. In this hour of crisis in Bihar, I hope our cadres will rise to the occasion."
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