PM tweet shows concern for Bihar, not Karnataka, say parties

Prime Minister Narendra Modis tweet expressing concern over the floods in Bihar drew the ire of leaders of opposition parties, who alleged he lacked sympathy for the flood victims in Karnataka as no special grants have been released.

A BJP MLA too was of the view that Modi did not care much for the Karnataka victims as much as he did for those flood-hit people in Bihar.

The Karnataka leaders minced no words to highlight the alleged indifference of Centre towards the Karnataka and slammed the 25 BJP Lok Sabha members for their alleged inaction to draw the Centres attention towards the agony of the flood victims.

The Prime Minister had tweeted on Monday, "Spoke to Nitish Kumar Ji regarding the flood situation in parts of the state. Agencies are working with the local administration to assist the affected. Centre stands ready to provide all possible further assistance that may be required."
Alleging that whatever was happening in Karnataka was target-based politics, he said, "Just to finish off a person, you cannot finish off Karnataka."
In another tweet, he said, "On days like these, we cannot but wonder if Bihar's 40 seats vis-a-vis Karnataka's paltry 28 is the reason why Nitish Kumar gets a call, but Yediyurappa's efforts to talk about Karnataka floods get rejected."
It tweeted: "Narendra Modi Avare (Ji), why can't you show similar interest in helping Karnataka? You visit Karnataka multiple times during elections but you do not want to sympathise with the people now?"
"No other state got the kind of relief Karnataka got."