No amount of financial aid announced for Kerala: UAE envoy

When asked about the UAE's $100 million aid offer he said: "It is not yet final. It has not been announced."

The UAE is assessing the relief needed in the aftermath of the floods in Kerala, and no official announcement has been made regarding any specific amount of relief that the country would release to India.
"The assessment of relief needed for the flood and aftermath is ongoing. Announcing any specific amount as financial aid, I don't think it is final, since it is still ongoing," UAE Ambassador to India, Ahmed Albanna told The Indian Express.
When asked about the UAE's $100 million aid offer he said: It is not yet final. It has not been announced."
On Friday state BJP chief P.S. Sreedharan Pillai respond to the Kerala CM's statement that the UAE offered $100 million aid. They demanded that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan reveal the source who told him about the assistance. Pillai said: "We want Vijayan to explain about this news and from where he received it. After the Centre expressed reservations in accepting the aid, a vicious smear campaign was unleashed against the Centre and Prime Minister Narendra Modi."
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Earlier this week at a press meet in the state capital, Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan spoke about the aid from the UAE, saying that the news was conveyed to him by businessman, Yusufali M.A.
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The unprecedented floods in the south Indian state of Kerala has left millions in relief camps and over 400 dead, authorities also fear outbreaks of disease.

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