Priyanka Gandhi arranges 500 buses for migrants, waits for UP nod

A day after Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi shot off a letter to the UP-Chief Minister seeking permission for 1000 buses to ferry stranded migrants, the party has arranged 500 buses to take migrants from Rajasthan’s Alwar and Bharatpur to other parts of the country.

But, till the time of publishing this report, permission from the BJP government was not granted.

As per Congress sources, buses carrying migrants have reached to the Bahaj Goverdhan border near Mathura on Sunday but they were not allowed to cross over.

Priyanka Gandhi, who is also in charge of party affairs in eastern Uttar Pradesh said that the Congress will bear the cost of these chartered buses at a time when the migrants are finding it tough to return home safely.

“Lakhs of workers are trying to get back to their homes while walking from various parts of the country and there are not enough arrangements made for them. We wish to operate 500 buses each from Ghazipur and Noida borders,” Priyanka Gandhi wrote in her letter to Yogi Adityanath. She asserted that the “nation-builders cannot be left to fend for themselves in such times”.