Govt failure responsible for floods, relief operations should be conducted on war footing: CPI

Patna, Oct 3 (UNI) Communist Party of India (CPI) on Saturday alleged that the state government had failed to prevent the worsening flood situation in Bihar and demanded that relief and rescue operations be intensified on a war footing. CPI Bihar state secretary Ramnaresh Pandey said heavy rainfall in the catchment areas of Nepal and the release of water from the Valmikinagar barrage had aggravated the flood situation in the state, affecting lakhs of people in six north Bihar districts: West Champaran, East Champaran, Gopalganj, Muzaffarpur, Vaishali and Saran. He alleged that the state government had failed to check the…