The volunteers of the right-wing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh have pitched in to help the flood-affected families in Bihar.

An RSS activist said that about 11,000 volunteers of the organisation's six affiliates, namely, Sewa Bharati, Ganga Samagrah, Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram, Bajrang Dal, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and Vishwa Hindu Parishad, have spread out and have been active in relief operations in flood-hit areas, says a HT report.

"The volunteers are even using private boats to reach out to stranded victims in remote villages and providing relief including food, medicines and survival apparatus to the victims, an activist said.

However, the volunteers have claimed that they have reached out to 66,000 victims so far without any government help.

One of the volunteers said that at times our boats laden with relief materials have been seized. At another time, we were told not to use our banner on the relief boats.

Opposition leader Sushil Modi said that the Bihar government does not want private agencies or other parties to take credit for the relief work and is hence debarring NGOs from visiting relief camps.

Meanwhile, Bihar minister for disaster management Chandra Shekhar said that the claims by RSS of providing flood relied is false as they are nowhere to be seen.

Chandra Shekhar hit back and said that the RSS is just trying to create an impression that the ‘grand alliance’ is doing nothing for flood victims.

"The union ministers, controlled by the RSS, actually do not care about anyone. They just come and do aerial surveys and return to Delhi without giving anything," he said.