As the migrant workers issue has taken a political turn between the Congress and the BJP, the Uttar Pradesh Government has accepted Congress national general secretary Priyanka Gandhi’s offer to provide 1,000 buses to transport migrant workers.
UP Additional Chief Secretary Awanish Awasthi said the Government has accepted the Congress proposal and asked them to furnish details of 1,000 buses. Congress president Ajay Kumar ‘Lallu’ claimed to have handed over the list of buses they had provided on the borders to ferry the migrant workers.
But taking a jibe at the Congress, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked Priyanka Gandhi why migrant workers from Congress-ruled States were sent in trucks if the Congress-ruled States had so many buses.
Yogi’s tweets were in response to an emotional tweet from Priyanka Gandhi where she had asked the UP Government to allow entry of 1,000 buses which the Congress had arranged to ferry migrant workers to their native districts.
In the first tweet, the CM asked if the Congress had 1,000 buses at its disposal than why the Punjab and the Maharashtra Governments were sending migrant workers in trucks. “The nation is saddened to hear accident in Auriyya in which a truck was coming from Punjab while another from Rajasthan. Will Priyanka Gandhi take responsibility of that accident and tender an apology to the nation,” Yogi asks in his second tweet.
In the next tweet he says if the Congress has arranged for 1,000 buses why it has so far not furnished the details of the buses to the Uttar Pradesh Government.
“The majority of the Shramik Express trains are coming to UP. If Priyanka is so concerned about migrant labourers from UP why she is not asking her State Governments to send these labourers through trains,” Yogi asks in his fourth and last tweet.
In the evening, however, Additional Chief Secretary Awanish Awasthi said the Government has accepted the Congress proposal and asked them to furnish details of 1,000 buses.
Congress president Ajay Kumar Rs Lallu’, here on Monday claimed to have handed over the list of buses they had provided on the borders to ferry the migrant workers.
“The Congress has handed over the details of the 1,000 buses to the State Government. We are doing our bit. The Congress has provided food packets to 60 lakh people by running 22 community kitchens in the districts .We have also put up food and water stalls at the border of the State to provide help to the migrants coming from other States,” he said.
Lallu, however slammed the Yogi Government for its laxity in providing relief to the migrants who assembled in large numbers on the State border.
“Congress has made several offers like paying for all migrants passengers coming on Shramik Express after the railways charged fare from the poor, to provide buses so that they can be send home safely etc,” pointed Lallu claiming that the BJP Government had ignored all such requests and now finally they reacted on Monday asking them to provide details of buses.
“Unnecessary delay has been already made by the Yogi Government but I hope that now with the details of buses are with them, they will respond positively and extend immediate relief to stranded migrants workers by ferrying them safely to their home”, he added.