Continuing her tirade against Bharatiya Janata Party government over the pathetic condition of migrant labourers, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday flayed the irresponsible remarks of the Railways over several deaths of passengers and trains taking different routes, causing great problems to the travellers.
“Eighty passengers died so far on Shramik Express as per the figures given by Railway Protection Force (RPF), 40 per cent trains are running late, many had taken a wrong route,” tweeted Priyanka, saying how irresponsible and insensitive railway ministry officials are is evident from the fact that they issued advisory that weak persons should not travel on trains. She said that from the beginning, the Railways was never serious or sensitive about running Shramik special trains.
Priyanka alleged that the Central as well as Uttar Pradesh governments had ignored the plight of the migrants and had left women, children, old persons and others to walk down for several hundred kilometres to reach their homes.
“The government even failed to provide food or water for these migrants,” she added while targeting the BJP government.
It may be mentioned that as per the figures given by the RPF, 80 passengers died while travelling on Shramik special trains between May 9 and May 27. However, the Railways claimed that the passengers died of various illnesses and not due to any laxity on their part.
Meanwhile, Congress Legislative Party leader Aradhana Mishra ‘Mona’, said she had written a letter to Assembly Speaker Hriday Narayan Dikshit informing him how a member of the House was harassed and tortured by the state government in a fake and fabricated case.
Mona said on Sunday that she informed the Speaker how UPCC chief Ajay Kumar Lallu was first arrested for raising voice against the Agra administration which was “illegally” stopping movement of buses to Ghaziabad despite Additional Chief Secretary (Home), Awanish Awasthi saying permission had been given for the movement of the buses. She said that not only this, when Lallu was released on bail the very next day, Lucknow police acted as if the Congress state president was a listed criminal and rushed to Agra to again take him into custody in another fabricated case registered in the state capital. Mona claimed that as the Uttar Pradesh Police had no evidence against Lallu so now they were unnecessarily delaying the legal process by not providing the Case Diary (CD) in the court concerned so the the UP Congress president could not get bail. She also alleged Lucknow police tortured Lallu who was sent to judicial custody.
Mona demanded that the case against Lallu be immediately withdrawn, the guilty policemen be punished and Lallu be immediately released from jail.