Demanding the TDP government to take up immediate relief and rehabilitation measures in the three southern districts battered by heavy torrential rains, YSR Congress has said that the party president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy would tour the affected areas in a couple of days.

"The State Government has miserably failed in handling the situation as it did not take any preventive measures to carry out the relief operations despite the weather forecast and people of Nellore, Chittoor and YSR Kadapa districts were badly affected, Party senior leader Botsa Satyanarayana told reporters ön Thursday.

There were no instructions from the Government to carry out the rescue, relief and rehabilitation programmes in the three districts though the State has a standard operating procedures. Evacuating the people in low lying areas and storing essential commodities for distribution after gauging the intensity of the calamity were not carried out, he said. To instill confidence among the people, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy would tour the three districts and the date would be finalized soon, he said.

"The State has been reeling under severe drought and the State, which has declared 196 mandals as affected areas and assured to consider 170 more, has never sent a report to the Centre, he said.