BJP team to visit cyclone-hit districts of Tamil Nadu

CHENNAI: A team from the Tamil Nadu unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party would visit the cyclone Gaja-affected districts of the State on Thursday to assess the damage caused, the party said Wednesday.

The team would visit the districts of Nagapattinam, Tiruvarur, Thanjavur and Dindigul and meet the affected people, president of the BJP unit Tamilisai Sounderrajan said in a press statement here.


After the visit, the team would submit a report to the BJP headquarters in the next two or three days, the statement said adding that the team comprises vice-president of the farmers wing G K Nagaraj and secretaries 'Karu' Nagarajan and 'Puratchi' Kavithasan.

Since the cyclone crossed the coast on November 16, the BJP cadre have been holding medical camps and distributing relief material to the people.

The cyclone made landfall near Vedaranyam in Nagapattinam district, about 350 km from Chennai, at a speed of upto 120 kmph, claiming 46 lives and leaving a trail of destruction in over 10 districts.