Rahul Gandhi continues to attack the center while overseas for his mother’s check-up.
New Delhi:
Congressional leader Rahul Gandhi, who is abroad for his mother Sonia Gandhi’s medical check-up, tweeted this morning a sharp response to the government’s response in parliament on Monday on data on migrant deaths during the blockade. by coronavirus.
On Monday, when the 18-day monsoon session of parliament began amid the pandemic, more than five months after the previous session, Union Labor Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar said the center has no data on the death of migrants during the shutdown that began in March.
“The Modi government does not know how many migrants died during the confinement … how many jobs were lost. If it was not counted … no one died? The sad thing is that the government does not care about the loss of life.” The world saw them die … Modi’s government did not know, “Gandhi, 50, tweeted in Hindi.
Lakhs of migrants were left without work in March when the government declared one of the strictest lockdowns in the world to control the spread of the coronavirus. Many of them died while trying to cover a journey of hundreds of kilometers, back to their villages from the cities, on foot while transport services remained closed. Heartbreaking images had captured his plight.
Gandhi has been attacking the center for the plight of migrants in his tweets, accusing the government of mishandling the outbreak.
In May, when she met immigrants camping on a flyover in Delhi, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman scoffed at the move, calling it a “draamabazi.” “Instead of wasting time with migrants and sitting with them, walk with them and carry your suitcase. In states governed by Congress, ask for more trains so that more migrants can get home,” she had said.
Today, Mr. Gandhi, the deputy of the Wayanad Congress in Kerala, once again launched a new attack after the government’s statement in parliament.
In the session, the first since the nationwide lockdown was imposed to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the Union Ministry of Labor was asked if the government has data on migrant workers who returned to their states. There is no data on migrant deaths, so “the question” of compensation does not arise, the union’s Labor Ministry said, drawing anger and criticism from the opposition.
Head of Congress Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi went abroad last week for the head of Congress’s medical check-up. They will not attend the first part of the monsoon session of parliament. However, Gandhi continues to attack the center in his daily tweets.
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