Rahul Gandhi asks Modi to pay migrant employees as state-imposed lockdowns set off exodus

India is witnessing a pointy spike in Covid-19 circumstances after months of declining numbers. While many states are affected by the second wave of the coronavirus outbreak, Maharashtra and Delhi are amongst the worst hit. To deal with the exponential rise within the COVID circumstances, the Maha Aghadi Govt led by Uddhav Thackeray in Maharashtra and the Arvind Kejriwal Govt in Delhi have introduced rigorous lockdowns within the state.
The panic created by this sudden announcement has compelled migrants employees, who endured lockdown infused difficulties through the first wave of the an infection final yerar as effectively, to return to their native locations.
As the mass exodus of migrant employees continues, Delhi’s Arvind Kejriwal-led authorities appears to stay nonchalant over the problem. Likewise, within the western state of Maharashtra, the migrant labourers have been left to fend for themselves by the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities.
Rahul Gandhi asks Modi authorities to wash Kejriwal and Uddhav Thackeray’s mess
Basically, the migrant exodus in Delhi and Maharashtra started after Kejriwal and Uddhav Thackeray introduced hurried lockdowns of their respective states and furthermore due to the mismanagement of disaster by the state authorities. Interestingly, although the state-imposed lockdowns have triggered the migrant exodus, Thackeray’s associate and Congress supremo Rahul Gandhi has requested the Modi authorities to pay for the migrant labourers.
The Gandhi Scion has taken to Twitter to say that it was the accountability of the Centre to deposit cash into the accounts of the migrant labourers who had been leaving the states.
प्रवासी एक बार फिर पलायन कर रहे हैं। ऐसे में केंद्र सरकार की ज़िम्मेदारी है कि उनके बैंक खातों में रुपय डाले।लेकिन कोरोना फैलाने के लिए जनता को दोष देने वाली सरकार क्या ऐसा जन सहायक क़दम उठाएगी?#Lockdown— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) April 20, 2021
“Migrants are on the move again. In this situation, it is the responsibility of the Central government to deposit money in their accounts. But will a government that is blaming the people for spreading COVID-19 take such a step?”, Tweeted the Gandhi scion after the Delhi and Maharashtra govt’s stunning indifference to the plight of the migrant employees compelled them to depart the states.
Though technically it’s the accountability of the state authorities’s to take care of the wants of the migrant employees working within the states, Rahul Gandhi has beforehand additionally solid aspersions on the central authorities for the plight of migrant labourers through the first wave of the pandemic in 2020. He had hit out on the PM Modi-led authorities for imposing an ‘unscientific lockdown’.
One wonders now why the Gandhi scion is mum concerning the arbitrary lockdowns imposed by the Delhi authorities and extra importantly the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities in Maharashtra, of which his celebration in an integral a part of.
Migrant employees depart Delhi and Maharashtra within the wake of the lockdown bulletins
In the sunshine of the worsening coronavirus disaster within the nationwide capital, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as we speak introduced a strict 6-day lockdown in Delhi. The lockdown, he stated, will come into impact at 10 pm on Monday, and be in drive until 5 am subsequent Monday. Moreover, the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities in Maharashtra has introduced a state-wide lockdown until April 30.
Just just like the Delhi authorities’s stunning indifference to the plight of the migrant employees, the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities in Maharashtra additionally confirmed little issues for the migrant inhabitants in its state. The unlucky exodus of migrant employees in Delhi and Maharashtra not solely displays the disastrous dealing with of the coronavirus outbreak by the respective state governments but additionally reveals that addressing the issues of the migrant inhabitants shouldn’t be amongst their priorities.