Modi gives fund to tsunami-hit states, ignores own: RTI activist

Seva Bharthi, a Tamil Nadu-based NGO run by RSS, received Rs 5.27 crore from the Gujarat Chief Minister’s Relief Fund, a RTI query revealed. The RTI that was filed by Ramesh Joshi, who runs NGO Kutch Ladayak Manch in Mumbai, sought expenditure details of the fund for the last 12 years, a report in The Indian Express said. Seva Bharthi is involved in post-tsunami rehabilitation work.[caption id=“attachment_501183” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Image courtesy PIB[/caption] “The saddest part of Mr Modi is the fact that on December 23, 2004, three days before he sent Rs 10 crore to five states, five poor families of Bharuch district had suffered a crisis due to a fire incident. One of the victims, Maniben Prabhubhai Machhi, received only Rs 2,000 from the CM’s fund which is supposed to give relief to people belonging to the state,” Joshi said in a press release, as per the report. However, Gujarat Finance Minister Saurabh Patel called Joshi’s effort as an attempt to malign Chief Minister Narendra Modi.