VIJAYAWADA: Sunday night turned nightmare for thousands of people stranded in houses that were marooned in the flood water of Budameru and Krishna river.
In this hour of crisis, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu spent all night visiting the flooded areas in boats, creating confidence and boosting the morale of people to get through the crisis. He assured them that the State government was there in this hour of need and would bring them out of trouble.
After spending an entire day between visits to the flood-affected areas and reviews with officials at the NTR District Collectorate to coordinate rescue and relief operations, he visited the flood-affected regions in Vijayawada repeatedly and covered all the areas till early morning to instil confidence among the stranded people.
Naidu repeatedly assured the people that the government would come to their rescue. He asked the officials to coordinate with the people by adopting a humanitarian approach to increase their confidence levels.
Late on Sunday night, Naidu visited Ajit Singh Nagar and other surrounding areas marooned in the flood water of Budameru in a boat and personally distributed food and water to the affected people.
The septuagenarian leader waded in the knee-deep water at Ramalingeswar Nagar, Krishna Lanka, when he learned that the Krishna river water was oozing out of the ground near the flood retaining wall and the people were panicked there.
From there, he visited the flood-affected areas in Ibrahmipatnam around 2 am to boost the morale of the people there, who were worried that they might be revisited by the nightmare of the 2009 floods. He wound up his visit around 3 am only to get back to work at 6 am, reviewing the situation with the officials and coordinating relief works.
