UP govt accepts Priyanka's offer to ferry migrants

May 18, 2020 16:25

A boy rests on his bags as he waits to board a bus.

Awanish Awasthi, UP Additional Chief Secretary (Home) writes to Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra accepting her proposal to deploy 1000 buses for migrants. He has sought details of the 1000 buses and drivers without delay.

The Congress party has said that it has organised around a 1000 private buses to facilitate the movement of migrants on the directives of Uttar Pradesh Congress in-charge and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

The decision was taken purely on humanitarian grounds and there is no question of politcising the issue since neither UP nor Rajasthan are going to polls anytime soon, the party has said.

None of the buses had any Congress symbol like a sticker or flag on them.

Priyanka Gandhi had earlier in the day asked UP CM Yogi Adityanath to allow the party to ferry migrant labourers back home in buses arranged by it and kept ready at the state border.

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