AAP lawmakers to donate salary for flood-hit Kerala
New Delhi, Aug 18 : Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) head Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday announced that all party ministers, MLAs and MPs will donate a month's salary for flood-hit Kerala state.
"All AAP MLAs, MPs and Ministers donating one month salary for Kerala," Kejriwal said in a tweet.
The Delhi government on Friday had announced that it will donate Rs 10 crore to flood-ravaged Kerala.
The death toll due to the floods across Kerala increased to 180 on Saturday with rescue operations continuing at several locations.
Since August 8, over 2.23 lakh people have been put up in 1,568 relief camps across the state.
The red alert continued in 12 of the 14 districts of the state, except Kasargode and Thiruvananthapuram.
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Siddaramaiah holds emergency meeting with top cops over Kotekar Cooperative Society robbery
Mangaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah convened an emergency meeting with senior police officials in Mangaluru following the robbery at the Kotekar Cooperative Society on K.C. Road, Talapady. He directed authorities to expedite the investigation and apprehend the culprits at the earliest.
The meeting took place after a Medical Education Department program and was attended by Western Zone IG Amit, Mangaluru City Police Commissioner Anupam Agrawal, SP Yatish, and DySP.
Seeking a detailed briefing on the incident, Siddaramaiah questioned the officials about how the robbers managed to escape so easily, how many toll gates they crossed, and the lack of security at these checkpoints.
The officials however, conveyed that there was no security officer at the Society’s office at the time of the robbery and only five or six staff members were present at the time of the heist.
Police officials informed the Chief Minister that the suspects were recorded speaking in Kannada and Hindi. Siddaramaiah instructed the authorities to enforce strict checks at all toll gates, impose blockades across four districts borders, and ensure the arrest of the accused for strict legal action.
