The All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, has arranged a set of 500 buses to ferry migrant workers from the Uttar Pradesh borders to Rajasthan’s several districts, a report from source revealed.
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The office of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has, reportedly, mobilised these buses from several districts of Rajasthan to take home those migrant workers heading to their home towns from Uttar Pradesh. These buses are said to reach their target spots at the Uttar Pradesh borders by the morning of Sunday, May 17.
The Congress party’s executive leader has also written a letter to the UP chief minister, Yogi Adityanath, seeking permission to allow to ply 1000 buses to ferry migrant workers walking to their destinations during nationwide lockdown due to Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The letter reveals the party’s plan to ferry 500 migrant workers from Ghazipur Border, Ghajiabad and 500 migrant workers from Noida border.
आज यूपी सरकार को पत्र लिखकर कांग्रेस की तरफ से 1000 बसें चलाने की अनुमति मांगी है।
रोज होती दुर्घटनाएं, असहनीय पीड़ा, अमानवीय हालात। हमारे कामगार भाई-बहन और उनके बच्चे संकट के दौर से गुजर रहे हैं।
मैंने सरकार से पहले भी अपील की है कि कृपया बसें चलाकर पैदल चल रहे.. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/Bw2EOIkgil
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) May 16, 2020
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In the letter, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has assured that the cost of the initiative will be borne by the Congress party. She also wrote that the migrant workers cannot be left to die on the streets. “Nation building labourers cannot be left (unattended) this way. Indian National Congress party is committed to help these labourers,” wrote Gandhi Vadra in her letter to CM Yogi Adityanath.
.. मजदूरों को घर पहुंचाएं। केवल आज के ही दिन में 3 भीषण दुर्घटनाएं घट गईं।
ये मजदूरों को अकेले छोड़ देने का वक्त नहीं है। आशा है उप्र सरकार से सकारात्मक जवाब आएगा। 2/2
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) May 16, 2020