bhubaneswar bjp on sunday alleged that relief items have not reached to many floodaffected areas of the state the leaders of the party have made this allegation after visiting several floodaffected localities in the statebjp general secretary prithviraj harichandan on sunday said the state government has failed to provide cooked food or dry food candles and tarpaulin for the flood affected households people are facing difficulties to get safe drinking water when private organisations enter into the areas and provide relief to the affected people the state government cannot reach out to its own people which is shameful he addedhe said relief distribution was not started for the first four days after chief minister naveen patnaik did an aerial survey relief items have been provided in some flood affected areas still many affected localities are yet to get relief items people are staying under the open sky the relief items are being distributed on the basis of party line he addedharichandan said the water resources department should have started repairing river barrages and dams before the monsoon season but nothing was done the state government and its water resources department are responsible for the flood they should apologise to the people of the state for the man made food long term plans should be framed to check floods in the state he addedbjd spokesperson lenin mohanty said bjp odisha unit has a habit of politicizing disasters instead of politicising the issue they should work hand in hand with the organisations or individuals to help the flood affected people they should understand that the entire administrative machinery is geared up to help the people affected by flood he addedhe said bjd as a party is very focussed and most of its leaders are at the flood affected areas to monitor the relief and restoration works this is not the right time to politicise the issue he added