Yogi slams Congress' 'aid to migrants', questions responsibility for Auraiya accident

Slamming Congress party's pretense at helping migrant labourers, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath posed four questions to UP (East) Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. latter has slammed UP government for ongoing migrant crisis in India, as lakhs of migrants return back to vills amid India's lockdown. Currently, fourth phase of lockdown has been extended till May 31 as Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases soar to 96,169 with 3029 fatalities.

Uttar Pradesh migrants break police barriers in Madhya Pradesh's Rewa to enter state

Yogi poses four questions to Congress

• He asked if Congress had 1000 buses, why were migrants sent via trucks from Rajasthan and Maharashtra to Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. 
• He questioned if Congress would take responsibility for Auraiya trdy as one truck was coming from Punjab and ar from Rajasthan
• Furrmore, he stated that government has t been informed details of people or buses arriving in 1000 buses arranged by Congress to UP
• Informing that most Shramik trains were travelling workers back to UP, he asked Vadra to convince Congress-ruled states to allow more trains to UP.

Uttar Pradesh Minister slams Priyanka Gandhi over engaging in 'politics' over migrants

Priyanka attacks CM Yogi Adityanath over migrants 

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra earlier this week reiterated her demand that Uttar Pradesh government should deploy roadways buses to take stranded labourers to ir native places. She claimed that 20,000 buses of state are sitting idle and asked Yogi government to put m into service. Since n she has arranged 1000 buses to take back migrants to different parts of UP.

"re is chaos on roads of country. labourers are walking back home from cities with ir children and families on empty stomachs. It seems as if system has forgotten m. Lakhs of labourers are on roads braving summer heat. Accidents are taking place every day," Priyanka said.

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UP's migrant rush

On Sunday, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi, revealed that 522 trains have brought 6.65 lakh migrant workers, from or states till date. Moreover, around 16.5 lakh migrants have returned till date amid lockdown. Apart from this, government is currently, preparing a database of skills of incoming workers to provide employment to 20 lakh people as per ir skills.

UP govt directs district magistrates to arrange buses to transport walking migrants home

Moreover, Uttar Pradesh government instructed all district magistrates to arrange buses for migrant workers, who are found walking on foot, to send m to ir homes. Moreover, government has also banned entry of any migrants on foot and trucks in wake of trdy. This move came after a truck collided with a container truck in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya at 3:30 AM killing as many as 24 migrant workers and injuring more than 15. migrants were coming from Rajasthan on truck and were returning to Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand and some parts of Uttar Pradesh.