Tamil Nadu CM accuses BJP members of spreading rumours
CM Stalin stated that the rumours of 'attack' on migrant labourers started spreading a day after he spoke about the need for a united national-level alliance against the BJP
CM Stalin stated that the rumours of 'attack' on migrant labourers started spreading a day after he spoke about the need for a united national-level alliance against the BJP
The labourers, including nine minors, were being taken to toil in brick kilns near Hyderabad city when the police intercepted the vehicle in which they boarded and rescued them from a labour trap.
The top court directed all state governments to implement the one nation one ration card scheme, which allows migrant workers to avail ration benefits from any part of the country,
India, a modern-day bourgeois democracy with socialism sitting uncomfortably in the Preamble, neither faces a civil war nor an invasion of states. Its problems are self-generated. The twin blades of economic and political crisis have been self sharpened by the government on the whetstones of indifferent governance, communalism, and neo-liberal capitalism.
She was the 'Special Resident Commissioner' of Bihar during the Corona lockdown effectively tackling the concerns of migrant labourers of Bihar stranded in various Indian states after the nationwide lockdown.
The driver of the bus, Rajeev, was later arrested by the police from Kotwali area of Muzzaffarnagar on Thursday.
Maharashtra is the worst hit state from Coronavirus pandemic with 22171 positive cases and 832 deaths so far.
'I request the government to constitute a multi-nodal agency under a senior Cabinet Minister to oversee relief and rescue of migrants,' said Ahmed Patel.
These migrant labourers, a group of around 20 of them, were travelling from Hyderabad and going to Jhansi in Madhya Pradesh and Etah in Uttar Pradesh in a truck carrying mangoes.
There had been numerous reports of thousands of migrants protesting and demanding their return to their home states and some even attempted to sneak their way out in tankers, containers, concrete mixers, while many others walked hundreds or thousands of kms to reach their homes.
