The West Bengal government on Saturday night termed the railways' statement about receiving clearance to run migrant trains from the state in the evening "misleading and incorrect", saying it was given on Friday or before.
After day-long war of words between the state and the Centre over the matter, the railways said in the night that had received "clearance" from West Bengal for running eight special trains to the state to ferry people stranded outside due to the lockdown.
A senior railway official said three trains from Karnataka, two each from Punjab and Tamil Nadu, and one from Telangana will take stranded people to West Bengal over the next few days.
However, late in the night, West Bengal Home Secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay tweeted, "Ministry of Railways tweet is misleading and incorrect."
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