New Delhi: The BJP on Monday slammed the Congress for "indulging in politics" over ticket fare for special trains being run to transport migrant workers, saying not even a single rupee has been charged from the workers as Indian Railways has subsidised 85 per cent of ticket fare and the remaining 15 per cent would be paid by the state governments concerned.
"There is no truth in the allegations by the Congress," Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Zafar Islam told ETV Bharat here through a video message.
Earlier in the day, the BJP had clarified that for each 'Shramik Express', special trains being run for migrants, about 1,200 tickets to the destination were handed by the railways to the state government concerned.
State governments are supposed to clear the ticket price and hand over the tickets to workers, it said.
Seeking to corner the central government, the Congress on Monday said its state units will bear the cost of rail travel of needy migrant workers and labourers stranded at their workplaces due to the lockdown imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi in a statement announced the party's decision and said this would be the Congress' humble contribution in standing shoulder to shoulder with these workers.
