UP: BJP deploys cadre to help migrants

The BJP party has deployed its cadre who has started distributing food, water, masks and sanitisers to the harassed migrants.

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to assist the government in providing relief to them. The BJP has identified about 150 such points across the state, which are mostly being taken by migrants to return to their villages.At these points, the party has deployed its cadre who has started distributing food, water, masks and sanitisers to the harassed migrants.

Uttar Pradesh, May 13 (ANI): Migrant labourers walk the distance to their native place during the COVID-19 lockdown in Lucknow on Wednesday. (ANI Photo)

“At many places the migrants were seen travelling barefoot and the party cadres under the direction of UP BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh and UP BJP general secretary (organisation) Sunil Bansal, are also providing them footwear,” said Manish Dixit of the BJP.

Meanwhile, BJP MPs in UP have targeted Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and UPCC chief Ajay Kumar ‘Lallu’ on twitter over Priyanka’s missive to UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath suggesting ways to deal with migrant labourer issue.

“Thanks for the advice but chief minister Yogi Adityanath is already active on all these issues. It is nice to know that those who robbed the poor are now giving advice,” tweeted BJP MP Satyadev Pachauri.

“It would be still better if Priyanka also gave some advice to chief ministers of party -ruled states in Punjab, Chattisgarh and Maharashtra too where it shares power with Shiv Sena. The governments there are unable to tackle the issue of migrant labourers,” said BJP’s Kannauj MP Subrat Pathak.

“CM Yogi Adityanath, a three-term MP doesn’t need advice from a leader whose sole claim to fame is her lineage,” said Farrukhabad MP Mukesh Rajput.