BJP leader Muraleedharan’s remarks about Wayanad landslides draw flak

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Senior BJP leader V Muraleedharan on Tuesday courted a controversy after he claimed only three local body wards were washed away in the Wayanad landslides, not an entire region. “It is not right to say a region was washed away in the landslides.

Only three wards in two panchayats were destroyed. Money can be sanctioned only according to the law,” Muraleedharan had told reporters in response to questions over the delay in central aid to rehabilitate the victims of the July 30 calamity.