Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on October 7 called for cooperation from the media amid the flooding crisis in Guwahati city.
Guwahati Flooding Crisis
CM Sarma said, “If the journalists promise to not report, then we will carry out the eviction drives. They have the clues to solve the problem of flash floods in Guwahati. If the reporters stop writing on both sides and hand over the key to us, we will solve the artificial flood problem in the city.”
“Prevention of flash floods in Anil Nagar and Nabin Nagar is not such an easy task, however, we have bought pumps and started the water receding works,” he added.
“People are building houses by encroaching the wetlands and in addition, we are unable to construct drains because of the hills, railway lines in many places. Furthermore, people have encroached upon the drain from Apsara to Nandan Hotel via Barsala but now if we begin the eviction drives, the reporters will say that the houses of the indigenous people have been demolished,” CM Sarma asserted.