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Updated: May 9, 2020 1:17:31 pm
Shah was referring to the “Shramik Special” trains that the Center operates to facilitate the transportation of migrant workers from different parts of the country to various destinations. (Express file photo)
Union Interior Minister Amit Shah on Saturday accused the West Bengal government led by Mamata Banerjee of not allowing trains with migrant workers to reach the state that may create more difficulties for workers. Follow live updates on the coronavirus outbreak
In a letter to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Amit Shah said: “Migrants from West Bengal are eager to get home, but we are not receiving the expected support from the state.” The Interior Minister added that West Bengal does not allow trains. “This is injustice to migrant workers. This will create more difficulties for them, “he added.
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Referring to the ‘Shramik Special’ trains that the Center operates to facilitate the transportation of migrant workers from different parts of the country to various destinations, Shah said in the letter that the Center has facilitated more than two lakh migrant workers to reach their homes. . . Read in Malayalam | Bengali
Interior Minister Amit Shah writes to West Bengal: WB migrants are eager to get home, but we are not receiving the expected support from the WB.
West Bengal does not allow trains.
This is an injustice to the migrant workers of the World Bank. This will create more difficulties for them. @IndianExpress– Deeptiman Tiwary (@DeeptimanTY) May 9, 2020
Beating up Amit Shah, Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee asked the interior minister to prove his charges or apologize. “Amit Shah speaks after weeks of silence only to deceive people with lies. Prove accusations or apologize, “PTI news agency quoted Banerjee as saying.
Meanwhile, the Union Interior Ministry criticized the state government on Wednesday for failing to apply Covid-19 containment measures effectively, allowing “specific groups at specific locations” in Kolkata and Howrah to violate the curves and attack the police and health workers.
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In his letter to West Bengal, the Union’s Secretary of the Interior, Ajay Bhalla, noted the violations of rickshaws, children who play cricket and people who bathe in rivers.
A letter sent Monday by Additional Secretary Apurva Chandra, who headed the IMCT sent to Kolkata and Howrah, did not mention any “target group” that violates the blocking guidelines. In the letter sent to West Bengal’s chief secretary Rajiva Sinha at the end of the tour, in what he called his “concluding remarks,” Chandra had pointed out, however, many deficiencies in the state health apparatus.
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In his letter to Sinha on Wednesday, Bhalla said: “Prison violations have been observed in the cities of Kolkata and Howrah by specific groups in specific localities with media reports of” crown warriors “including even the police attacked in such localities. This requires tighter enforcement of the blockade by improving police presence. Cases of problems faced due to ostracism by health professionals and lack of quarantine facilities are also concerning. “
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