Shatrughan to donate Rs 50 lakh

Patna (PTI): Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha, on Thursday, volunteered to donate Rs 50 lakh for the rehabilitation of flood-affected people of Uttarakhand and appealed other parliamentarians to come forward with the monetary assistance.

"I wish to donate Rs 50 lakh from my fund for expediting relief and rehabilitation of victims in Uttarakhand and appeal to other parliamentarians to come forward with monetary assistance at this hour of crisis," Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha, Lok Sabha member from Patna Saheb in Bihar, told PTI over phone from Mumbai.

The actor-turned BJP leader said that the disaster in Uttarakhand should be declared as national calamity considering the magnitude of destruction, rains and floods have caused there.