Rahul Priyanka to Start Wayanad Landslide Housing Project

Lok Sabha Opposition Leader and former Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi, and his sister, who is current Wayanad MP and AICC General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi, are scheduled to visit Wayanad this month to lay the foundation stone for 100 homes promised to survivors of the catastrophic landslide of last year. The homes had been assured by Rahul Gandhi in August 2024, following one of Wayanad's worst-ever natural catastrophes. The July 2024 landslide had devastated four villages, claiming over 280 lives, with around 80 persons reported missing and over 8,000 displaced to relief camps. 

Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi had last visited Wayanad on August 1 last year to meet survivors and assess damage. Rahul had promised local leaders in a meeting that he would build 100 houses to rehabilitate those who lost their homes.

Key Highlights-

• Rahul and Priyanka to visit Wayanad for housing project
• One hundred homes planned for landslide survivors
• Kerala government allocates land for construction

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The Kerala government has thereafter picked a site for the project, and the ceremony to be observed would officially usher in the construction work. While remembering the tragedy, Rahul Gandhi had reported, "I know what I felt when my father died. But this is much worse — people here have lost entire families. It's not one person feeling this pain, it's thousands."

Having vacated his Wayanad constituency in order to retain Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh, Rahul was succeeded by Priyanka, who recorded a thumping by-election victory with a lead of more than four lakh votes. The visit underlines the Gandhis' unrelenting devotion to restoration in Wayanad.