Give Rs 5,000 cr interim relief to K'taka immediately: Cong

Urging Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa to take up relief work in flood and rain ravaged districts of the state on "war footing", Congress in Karnataka on Tuesday demanded that the BJP-led central government immediately announce Rs 5,000 crore as interim relief.

Hitting out at the Centre for "delay" in announcing immediate relief to the state, the Congress' state unit said with no ministers, Yediyurappa's administration "resembled" President's rule.

"As there was union cabinet meeting today, we expectedthat some decision will be arrived at and an announcement willbe made.

Despite several of them from the state being members of the cabinet like Sadananda Gowda, Pralhad Joshi- nothing has happened," Pradesh Congress Chief Dinesh Gundu Rao said.

Speaking to reporters here, he said, he was unable to understand as to why BJP government was "delaying."
Calling Yediyurappa government as "one man cabinet", Rao said, it dosen't feel like that there is an elected government in the state, and there was a "President's rule like situation."