Amit Shah: Cooperate in the return of stranded migrants from Bengal: Amit Shah writes to Mamata Banerjee | India News



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NEW DELHI: Minister of the Interior Amit Shah has written to west of bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on the state’s failure to arrange for the return of migrant workers from West Bengal who are currently stranded in various states due to the Covid-19 blockade.
Shah in this letter to Mamata noted that while West Bengal immigrants working in other states are eager to return home and the Center and the states where they are stranded have made arrangements including trains to send them back, not There has been a response from Mamata took care of receiving them.
So far, the central government has facilitated more than 2,000 lakh migrants to reach their homes. The Interior Minister told Mamata that immigrants from West Bengal were also eager to get home and to the central government ready to facilitate their return by train, but the expected support from the Mamata government was not expected. West Bengal has not yet allowed trains to return. Shah is said to have pointed out that this is an injustice to the West. Bengal migrants and creates more difficulties for them.
Shah asked the Mamata government to cooperate with the Center in exchange for stranded workers, as the Interior Ministry has received repeated requests from states where they are stranded, to ensure that they reach their homes in West Bengal. Some of the states where these migrant workers are trapped even face unrest due to the frustration of migrants at not being able to get home.
On video: the Minister of the Interior asks CM Mamata Banerjee to organize the return of migrant workers from Bengal

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