New Delhi: Alleging Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh Government of playing "cheap and petty politics", Congress party, on Wednesday, urged the Chief Minister to allow those buses which are standing at Rajasthan-UP border, waiting for permission to get entry into the state for ferrying stranded migrant labourers to their home towns.
"It is still not late and I beseech with folded hands, like Priyanka Gandhi said, if you're so concerned about politics, please put your name or party banner but at least use the help we are providing," said Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi, while addressing a press conference.
The row between the two sides erupted when more than 500 buses, arranged by Congress party from Rajsthan to ferry migrant labourers, were stopped at the UP border by the authorities on the ground, saying that they haven't received any information from the officials to allow those buses entering the state.
Singhvi said, "It is inexplicable. If it was not tragic for humanity, it would be comic. How is that the Ajay Bisht government can prevent Congress from helping a mass of migrant workers who are walking hundreds of miles in this sweltering month of May?"
He also informed that the Congress workers will wait till 4 pm at the border and said that the party leader, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will put her whole efforts to the cause to ensure that these migrant labourers can reach their homes as soon as possible.
Singhvi alleged that the UP government is "scared" of the fact that Congress has arranged these many buses to help the migrant labourers. "BJP is acting as though there is no place of cooperative federalism in Indian democracy. The British Raj gave us a pernicious form of bureaucracy and now this government is taking it forward. BJP wants use Permit Raj to let migrant labourers die instead of doing anything or allowing political opponents to provide relief," he added.
Earlier, the UP Government had also alleged that Congress has provided registration numbers of two-wheelers and three-wheelers amid the details of 1000 buses.
An FIR has also been lodged against UP state chief of Congress Ajay Kumar Lallu and Secretary of Priyanka Gandhi, over this matter. Speaking over it, Singhvi said, "The arrests of Congress office-bearers by the state government has shown that they are playing a reprehensible and ridiculous game. Congress will not be dissuaded by that."
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