Priyanka Vadra again appeals UP CM to allow Congress ply buses for migrant

Lucknow, Within 24-hours of her letter  to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to allow her party to ply 1000 buses to facilitate safe transport to migrants labours, All India Congress General Secretary, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday issued an emotional appeal to Uttar Pradesh government requesting to give green signal to the buses already waiting for clearance at UP-Rajasthan border.

Respected chief minister, I wanted to make a request to you. This is not the time to do politics. Our buses are standing on the UP borders. Thousand of migrant men, women and children, were walking on foot without anything to eat and drink just to bear all the trouble in order to reach their homes. Give us permission to ply our buses so that they could ferry the migrant and their families safely to their homes, asserted Priyanka in an emotional appeal made through a video released by her on Sunday afternoon. Interestingly, the government so far made no official statement on the appeal.

Meanwhile UP Congress president, Ajay Kumar `Lallu, also strongly condemned the brutal lathi charge on stranded migrants labours stuck on UP-Rajasthan border at Mathura.



"It is a matter of shame and serious concern that instead of providing food or transportation to migrant labours, UP police had opened lathi charge on them at Jhansi, Mathura and Yamunanagar border just to silent their genuine demands, he said.

Lallu claimed that Party had already managed 500 buses which are waiting for government’s clearance to ferry the stranded migrants to their native villages in different districts of the State or in Bihar, Jharkhand etc.   

Accusing the Yogi Adityanath’s government for lending no support to other Parties to facilitate any kind of help to the migrants labourers, Congress Legislative Party Leader, Aradhana Mishra `Mona, said that the Bharatiya Janta Party government both in the Centre and here in Uttar Pradesh seems to be working against the interest of migrants labours. ``On one hand the Yogi government allowing others to lend any help to migrants and on the other hand, they left the poor workers and their families to let them die either of hunger or in any other kind of mishap, alleged Mona while blaming UP government for making unnecessary delay in giving them permission to ply their buses.