Cyclone Fani: Naidu requests EC to relax MCC in 4 coastal dists

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora to relax the Model Code of Conduct in AP East Godavari, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram and Srikakulam to enable the state to take steps in view of the cyclone threat as super cyclone FANI was likely to hit the coast between north coastal Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.

Amaravati:Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday requested the Election Commission of India to relax the Model Code of Conduct in four coastal districts to enable the state take steps in view of the cyclone threat.

The Chief Minister wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora in this regard, saying the super cyclone FANI was likely to hit the coast between north coastal Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.

Four districts of coastal AP East Godavari, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram and Srikakulam have to be kept on high alert.

"To facilitate the free flow of information, mobilization of human and material resources and taking other preventive steps, there is a need to relax the model code of conduct that is in force in the state.

Since the Assembly elections have been completed in the state, it is requested that the model code of conduct may be relaxed in the above mentioned four districts, so that official machinery and the ministers concerned could work effectively to keep the effects of cyclone FANI to the minimum and provide the solace and succour to the people of the affected areas," the Chief Minister said.