New Delhi: A day after migrant workers were sprayed with chemical disinfectant in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly, the Congress party on Tuesday slammed the state government while asking it to treat the labourers with dignity.
"Disinfectant spray. Time to sanitise our politics. Not migrant workers reaching Bareilly to go home. They work in factories, harvest crops, in restaurants, hotels, in construction projects, highways and in homes. They build India, treat them with dignity," senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal said in a tweet.
On Monday, the local administration and health workers sprayed disinfectant on the migrant labourers in Bareilly after they arrived in the district.
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However, after facing flak the District Magistrate Nitish Kumar directed the Chief Medical Officer to provide treatment to those who were sprayed with sodium hypochlorite on Sunday in a bid to sanitise them.
The district magistrate, in a tweet, admitted that the Nagar Nigam and fire brigade personnel became over-zealous in their sanitisation drive and sprayed the chemical on the people. He said action would be taken against the guilty persons.
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