The death toll from a major cyclone that hit eastern India and Bangladesh in early May has risen to 77 as anger grew over millions of people still without power and water.
, for moving some 1.2 million people to safety before the storm arrived, in what Odisha's chief minister called the"biggest human evacuation in history".
"I have lost my thatched house in the cyclone. No one from the government has come to see my damaged house," Shantilata Mishra, a resident in the Puri district, was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India . On Sunday, demonstrators blocking roads in Odisha's state capital Bhubaneswar, said a lack of coordination among various government agencies was compounding their misery.
Another protester said the government failed to provide"basic necessities such as water and power despite having promised to restore power supply by Sunday".
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