After Congress, now MPs/MLAs, Councillors of Gujarat BJP also to donate one month salary for flood relief

Gandhingar: All the MP’s and MLA’s including the Chief Minister and ministers of the ruling BJP in Gujarat and corporators of the municipal corporations of the party across the state would donate their one month salary for the flood relief work.

Party president Jeetu Vaghani and chief whip Pankaj Desai informed this today.

Vaghani said that the salaries of all the MP’s/MLA’s/corporators the party in Gujarat would be deposited in the Chief Minister’s relief fund.

He said that it was a tradition of the party to make donations in this manner in case of any major calamity on humanitarian grounds.

‘And in case of the current devastating floods in the state the same is being done,’ he said.

Desai said that the 8 Rajyasabha MP’s 26 Loksabha MP’s and 121 MLA’s and large number of corporators would donate their one month salary. ‘It was not the first time that we are doing this. Earlier this has been done for the relief of Nepal Earthquake, Uttarakhand floods and other occasions,’ he said.

Notably, the BJP has opened a control room for the flood relief and rescue work and had also sent truck loads of relief materials in worst affected Banaskantha and Patan districts.

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