"We demand that Government of India must announce the rains and floods that caused havoc in the entire state in the first week of September to be declared as a national calamity," NPP President and MLA from Udhampur Balwant Singh Mankotia said.
He said that his party today submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister and the Chief Justice of India, demanding that recent floods in the state be declared as a national calamity.
He said that the flood-hit residents of Jammu province were facing an uncertain future in view of the upcoming harsh winter season in the state.
"The state government too has miserably failed in providing food and shelter to the people," the NPP president said.
Mankotia alleged that thousands of metric tonnes of rice sent as relief by Chattisgarh government to the Jammu and Kashmir government was not distributed to the flood affected people in the state.