Congress offers to ply 1,000 buses for stranded migrants returning to UP

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra writes to Adityanath

The Congress party today offered to ply 1,000 buses for migrants workers stranded outside to return to their homes in Uttar Pradesh as a nationwide lockdown to contain the coronavirus outbreak continues.

In a letter addressed to UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath, Congress general secretary in charge of UP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said tens of thousands of migrant labourers were coming back to the state following lockdown.

“Despite a series of announcements by the government, they are on foot and there is no arrangement to safely take them to their native places,” she said.

Priyanka claimed so far about 65