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The Trinamool Congress responded on Saturday to accusation by Union Interior Minister Amit Shah that the West Bengal government led by Mamata Banerjee is not facilitating the movement of stranded migrant workers.
Amit Shah wrote to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, saying that his government is doing “injustice” to migrant workers by not allowing Shramik’s special trains to reach the state.
“Union Interior Minister Amit Shah speaks after weeks of silence only to trick people with lies,” said Abhishek Banerjee of the TMC, according to the PTI news agency.
“The Center is lying … West Bengal runs 711 migrant camps in the state. We are taking good care of them,” said Abhishek Banerjee, who is also the prime minister’s nephew.
Amit Shah had noted in his letter that the Center was not receiving “expected support” from the state government to help stranded migrant workers from West Bengal.
“The West Bengal government does not allow trains with migrants to reach the state. This is an injustice to the migrant workers of the World Bank. This will create more difficulties for them, ”Amit Shah had said in his letter to Mamata Banerjee.
The migrant worker issue is the latest critical point between the Center and the West Bengal government amid a dispute over the state’s efforts to control the coronavirus disease (Covid-19).
The Center and the state have exchanged accusations about the criteria for reporting deaths from the infection, and while Bengal says the Center is trying to politicize a public health crisis, the Union government maintains that state officials ignore repeated warnings. to intensify the fight against the disease
Federal authorities have said that the region has not carried out adequate tests and that there has been mismanagement in identifying critical points and their containment.
Union Secretary of the Interior Ajay Bhalla also criticized the state government for a very low test rate and a high death rate, 13.2%, the highest for any state.
The Center has also accused the state government of not allowing the cross-border movement of goods trucks to Bangladesh.
There are 1,678 cases of Covid-19 and 160 deaths in West Bengal as of Saturday morning.
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