At Chandru's Initiative

2000 Kgs of Rice for Mantralaya flood victims

Mr Chandrashekar Raju, General Secretary, Karnataka Pradesh Youth Congress and aspiring candidate for the forthcoming BBMP election organized a Relief Fund earlier this week for flood victims of Mantralaya. The programme was kickstarted by Sri. Krishna Byre Gowda and senior leader Sri. Ramalinga Reddy at the Congress Pattabhiramanagar Ward office. Groups of young people accompanied Chandru in a Padayatra to collect the relief materials for the victims.
Believing that charity begins at home, Chandru as Chandrashekar Raju is called, first donated 500 kg rice and then went knocking doors, seeking relief in cash or kind. The Padayatra elicited very good response from the people. Some contributed bags of rice, shopkeepers gave away Dress materials, blankets, Sarees, Dal, Oil, dry fruits, Atta, etc. Individual 400 packs were made with each bag consisting of provisions for one week including 10 kgs of rice, Steel plates, glass dal, oil, salt, atta, sambar podi , Mineral water cans,  etc.
Jayanagar 8th Block Laughter Club also collected Rs.50,000/-, bedsheets, blankets and other grocery items and handed them over to Chandru.
The Padayatra  began from 5th Block, Jayanagar, proceeding via 11th Main, 4th Block and 4th 'T' Block and 9th Block. All the relief items were taken directly  to Mantralaya, Bijapur and other affected areas of North Karnataka by Chandrashekar Raju, and 40 members including Keshav Kumar, Jayanagar Federation Secretary and other supporters. The buses in which they were traveling was flagged off by Sri. Rehman Khan, Rajya Sabha MP, accompanied by Sri. Ramalinga Reddy and Sri. Suresh, Congress leader.

Chandru  also appealed to the public and friends not to celebrate the Karnataka Rajyotsava in a grand way and to just hoist the flag. He also requested the people to conduct blood camps, health camps and collection of medicines for the flood victims.