New Delhi: The Congress released a documentary film on Saturday on Rahul Gandhi's interaction with a group of migrant labourers last week, demanding justice for such workers who are walking hundreds of kilometres to their homes amid the coronavirus lockdown. Gandhi demanded financial support from the Central Government by a direct cash transfer of Rs 7,500 in their bank accounts.
In 16-minute documentary capturing this interaction, Gandhi said that coronavirus has hurt a lot of people, but it has hit the migrant labourers the most.
Earlier, Wayanad MP had interacted with a group of migrant labourers near the Sukhdev Vihar flyover in Delhi last Saturday and asked them about their problems as they walked home amid the lockdown.
The group of workers had walked more than hundred miles from their worksite in Haryana to their village near Jhansi, in Uttar Pradesh. Mahesh Kumar, one of those labourers, alleged that they had not received any money from the Center and they were told to pay Rs 3,000 as a reservation amount for train travel.
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These people urged Gandhi to help them in reaching to their native places. They also demanded that government should provide employment opportunities to them after lockdown. Later, the Congress leader arranged transportation vehicles for these migrant labourers and also gave ration to them after they reached home.
Congress party has repeatedly raised this issue of migrant crisis while demanding the Central Government to provide financial assistance to them. At the end of this video, Rahul Gandhi appealed to the Government to provide direct cash transfer of Rs 7,500 in the bank accounts of 13 crore unprivileged families of the country.
"My migrant labourer brothers and sisters, you are the strength of this country. You take the entire burden of this country on your shoulders. The whole country wants justice for you. It is everyone's responsibility to strengthen the power of this country," Gandhi says in the documentary.
