Charging the JD(U)-BJP government in Bihar with failing to rise to the occasion, Prasad said “the situation is quite grim and the relief and rescue operation is not progressing satisfactorily”.

“We have sent 20 (drinking) water tanker rakes to the state but they are lying idle because the state government does not know where to send them,” he said.

“Kosi will be an issue in the coming election and people will decide who has done what”, Prasad told reporters here and refuted allegations that he was trying to gain political mileage out of the flood situation.

“The sheer devastation will not be forgotten by the people easily. The site of the skeletal remains will continue to haunt the state government after the water recedes”, he said.

However, he said at this hour of crisis there should not be any politics and “our priority should be rescue and relief operations and nothing else”.

Terming the Bihar flood as another Tsunami, the Railways Minister said an epidemic fear looms large over the state.