Chennai: CPI-M MLAs in Tamil Nadu would
donate their one month's salary to the Chief Minister's
General Releif Fund to be used for relief work in cyclone
Thane-battered Cuddalore district, the party said on Saturday.
Party's state unit Secretary G Ramakrishnan said the
party's ten MLAs will donate their one month salary (Rs
50,000 per MLA).
"The Centre's (interim relief) of Rs 500 crore is not
enough. It should sanction the sum (of Rs 5,249 crore) sought
by Tamil Nadu Government," he said in a statement.
The state government should speed up the relief work in the
cylone affected districts, he added.
PTI
First Published: Saturday, January 14, 2012, 18:00