Shashi Tharoor Suggests Earlier PM Visit to Wayanad

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor remarks on PM Modi's visit to Wayanad, advocating for a national disaster declaration to ensure adequate assistance.

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Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the landslide-hit Wayanad, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor expressed that an earlier visit would have been more beneficial.

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Tharoor commented, "It would have been better if he had gone earlier and seen the conditions on the ground as some of us have done." He emphasized the need for a national disaster declaration, hoping that Modi's visit would lead to such an announcement. "I hope that with PM Modi's visit, the government will now make it a point to actually go ahead and declare this a national disaster so that the appropriate level of assistance can follow," Tharoor added.