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Raju Bista urges CM to notify Hill tragedy as ‘disaster’

At a time when chief minister Mamata Banerjee has appealed to citizens to contribute to a public disaster relief fund for rebuilding flood- and landslide-hit North Bengal, Darjeeling MP Raju Bista has raised serious questions about the state’s handling of central disaster relief funds and its refusal to officially declare the calamity as a “disaster.”