Kerala High Court criticises LDF, UDF hartals in Wayanad
The Hindu
Kerala High Court criticizes LDF and UDF for holding hartal in landslide-hit Wayanad, deeming it irresponsible and disappointing.
The Kerala High Court on Friday (November 22, 2023) criticised the ruling LDF and the Opposition UDF in the State for their dawn-to-dusk hartals in landslide-hit Wayanad on November 19, saying that it was "irresponsible".
A Division Bench of justices A.K. Jayasankaran Nambiar and K.V. Jayakumar expressed displeasure over the hartals held in Wayanad and termed it as "unacceptable".
The court questioned how the hartal could be justified and asked why the ruling LDF went for it.
It also asked whether a hartal was the only way to protest and said that the decision to hold it, in an area where a major disaster had occurred, was "disappointing".
The LDF and the UDF hartals were a mark of protest against the lack of Central assistance for the landslide victims in the mountain district even months after the disaster.
Both the ruling and the Opposition parties wanted the BJP-led Union government to declare the landslide calamity as a national disaster and provide required assistance for the relief and rehabilitation of the survivors at the earliest.
The observations came during the hearing of a plea initiated by the High Court for prevention and management of natural disasters in the state in the wake of the landslides that devastated three villages in Wayanad district.
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