"The response and the conduct of relief operations by the state government is confused, sluggish and bereft of purposeful direction. In addition to the efforts of relief and rehabilitation, the government must first fully make its administrative machinery operational and put life in it", BJP state Spokesperson Lalit Moza said here.
The administrative machinery at the grass root level has totally vanished because of the unprecedented floods in the Valley, he claimed.
It was Government of India which rose to the occasion and conducted a massive airlift operation, ferrying relief and rescuing equipment with specialised personnel to the Valley and taking out marooned people, he added.
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