BJP team visits Lodan, Brenjan to assess losses

Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 1: Led by BJP senior leader from Kashmir & Member Legislative Council (MLC ) Sofi Yousuf, a 10 member team of the Party visited Lodan and Brenjan in Chrar-e-Sharief, where 16 people have been reported dead due to landslides and many injured besides damages to the houses.
This team was constituted by BJP State president & MP Jugal Kishore Sharma and State general secretary (Organisation) Ashok Koul and assigned the duty to visit the affected areas of Valley for on the spot assessment of the losses and the prevailing situation and it will submit a detailed report to the State unit after completion of its visit.
Yesterday, this team visited different areas of Budgam district, including Soibug and Hamdani Colony, where 46 houses have collapsed due to the heavy rains, landslides and floods.
Sofi Yousuf, while expressing Party’s concern and sympathies with the affected families, said that although such calamities cannot be controlled by anyone but our timely and sincere  efforts can lessen the losses and damages. He assured that the BJP stands with them in this hour of grief and sorrow adding that the State’s coalition Government is making all out efforts to ensure that every possible help is extended to each affected family.
BJP senior leaders who accompanied Sofi Yousuf included Haleema Begum, Nazir Ahmed Raina, Altaf Thakur, Ashok Bhat, Sheikh Rashid, Muzaffar Ahmed, Abdul Rehman Tickrey, Gulam Mohd. Chopan, Woman leaders Nilofar and Aneesa.