By TCN Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: Hyderabad MP and National President of All India Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen, Mr. Asaduddin Owaisi has reached violence-hit Assam with fresh relief supply for camp inmates who are still in lakhs in various districts including Dhubri, Chirang and Kokrajhar. On Wednesday, he along with a team of Assam unit of Jamiat Ulema distributed relief materials worth Rs 20 lakh in Dhubri.
Informing TCN over phone, Mr. Owaisi said his team has relief materials worth Rs 40 lakh. “Yesterday we distributed 2000 kits containing utensils and other household items among as many people in camps. Each kit cost Rs 1000. My team from Hyderabad has also brought kits containing nutritious food materials for mother and children,” Mr. Owaisi said adding he distributed these kits among camp inmates in Dhubri. He said the local team of Jamiat Ulema helped his team in distribution of the relief materials. He informed that today he is visiting Chirang district with the relief materials. His team include some MLAs like Ahmad Balala (MIM, Hyderabad)and Abdur Rahman Ajmal (AIUDF, Assam).
Mr. Asaduddin Owaisi (in black skullcap)and his team members distributing relief materials among victims in Dhubri, Assam
Mr. Owaisi was among the first from outside Assam who had rushed to the state to help the victims last month. He had announced Rs one crore as relief for the victims. In his first visit in August, he had taken a team of doctors from his Owaisi Hospital in Hyderabad, camped there for several days and provided food materials and medicines worth Rs 40 lakh to the victims in camps.
After clashes between Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslims in July, lakhs of people had to flee their homes in lower Assam. Among four lakh people who became homeless about three lakh were Bengali-speaking Muslims. According to official figures, thousands of Bodos also had to take shelters in relief camps due to violence.
Mr. Owaisi informed that his team is distributing relief materials not only among Muslims but other victims also like local non-Bodo adivasis, tribals and Hindus.