CM Pinarayi Vijayan visits Shirur landslide victim's home in Kozhikode

The Kerala chief minister assured them of all possible measures to find Arjun, adding that the Karnataka government has promised to restart the search.

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan during his visit to Arjun's house in Kozhikode Photo | Special Arrangement

Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday visited Shirur landslide victim Arjun's residence in Kannadikkal in Kozhikode district. Arjun was driving a lorry loaded with timber to Kozhikode when the landslide occurred on July 16, and has been missing since then. Additionally, search operations has not yielded any positive results.

Arjun's family including his parents, wife and sister issued a complaint about the search for him not resuming in the Gangavalli river.

Earlier in the day, Pinarayi visited the house of Arjun and interacted with his family members.

He assured them all possible measures to find Arjun, adding that the Karnataka government has promised to restart the search for him, which was temporarily stopped due to the strong undercurrent in the river after a 13-day search went on vile.

The Kerala CM also said that the state government is constantly following this case.

Later in the day, Pinarayi wrote a letter to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah urging him to resume search operations.

"I write this to share the anxiety and sorrow of the family members of Arjun, as he is missing for quite a long time. I was given to understand that the search operations to find Arjun were to be resumed today. Information is reaching that the operations have not yet resumed," he said in his letter.

Pinarayi also posted on Facebook that the concerns of the family on finding Arjun will be conveyed to the Karnataka government.

Multiple agencies had conducted a search mission to find him at the landslide site in Uttara Kannada district.