This comes two days after CM Adityanath accused the Congress leader of doing politics in the name of helping migrant workers.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has accepted Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi’s offer to run 1,000 buses for migrant workers desperate to go home amid the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown. The state government wrote to the Congress leader’s office demanding details of the buses, their numbers and the details of the drivers.
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Awanish Awasthi, Uttar Pradesh Additional Chief Secretary (Home) writes to Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra accepting her proposal to deploy 1000 buses for migrants. Seeks details of 1000 buses & drivers without delay. pic.twitter.com/6PrtlMQtYb
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) May 18, 2020
This comes two days after CM Adityanath accused the Congress leader of doing politics in the name of helping migrant workers. Priyanka Gandhi had urged CM Adityanath to permit the party to arrange buses for stranded migrant workers. The appeal made on May 16 in a video message was on the same day when Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman lashed out at her brother Rahul Gandhi for doing “dramabaazi” after he interacted with migrants resting under a flyover in the national capital. “We want to run 500 buses from the Ghazipur border in Ghaziabad and a similar number of buses from the Noida border. The Congress party will bear the expense for the same. We will observe all the protocols while helping these migrant workers reach home. We seek permission to run these 1,000 buses,” read a statement from Priyanka Gandhi’s office.
A day before Priyanka Gandhi’s appeal to the UP government, 24 migrant workers were killed when a trailer rammed a stationary truck on a highway near Auraiya in Uttar Pradesh. “Respected chief minister, I am requesting you, this is not the time for politics. Our buses are standing at the border. Thousands of labourers and migrants are walking towards their homes without food or water and after fighting all troubles. Let us help them. Give permission to our buses,” Congress leader said in a video message. In another tweet, she said, “Our buses are standing at the border. Thousands of nation-builders workers and migrants are walking in the sun. Give permission Yogi Adityanath ji. Let us help our brothers and sisters.” She also put out a video of empty buses waiting at the state border and had ordered the Congress to arrange buses without UP government’s response to her appeal.
