The opposition on Sunday attacked Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for being on a poll yatra when Maharashtra was facing the brunt of heavy rains.
Congress campaign committee chief Nana Patole said Fadnavis, despite being head of the state's Disaster Management Authority, was carrying out a "five-star yatra" with government funding.
"If the government does not take immediate steps to provide respite, we along with citizens will take over the disaster control cell. People of Mumbai, Thane, Palghar, Navi Mumbai, Raigad, Pen, Nashik, Sangli, Kolhapur are suffering due to rains and the state government is busy taking care of the CM's yatra," he said.
He said continuing with the Mahajanadesh Yatra was an insensitive act on the part of Fadnavis.
The government should declare the rain fury in the state a national calamity and provide compensation from the National Disaster Response Fund.
Senior Nationalist Congress Party leader Dhananjay Munde said "rulers" are busy with poll yatras while areas in the Mumbai metropolitan region were reeling under floods.
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