Migrant workers killed in Auraiya accident were charged hefty sums for travel: Yogi Adityanath counters Congress' allegation
Lucknow/IBNS: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has lashed out at the Congress leadership for shifting the blame for Auraiya truck accident in which 26 migrants were killed and 30 injured, alleging that the ill-fated trucks were coming from Congress-ruled Rajasthan and Punjab and travelling to Bihar and Jharkhand.
The Uttar Pradesh Congress unit had blamed the Yogi Adityanath government for being insensitive to the plight of the migrants and the Samajwai party had demanded his resignation over the incident.
Adityanath questioned the Congress leadership what it was doing when these migrants labourers were charged hefty sums in Rajasthan and Punjab, where it is in power, for travelling in the trucks, said media reports.
Countering the Congress attack on the issue, the UP Chief Minister said it (Congress) would exploit people first and then act innocent.
He used the Hindi idiom "Saw (100) chuhe khakar, billi haj ko chali" ( the cat seeking salvation after eating 100 rats) to describe the Congress leadership and condemned it for making of the migrant workers.
Reports said after the accident, the Uttar Pradesh government has stopped the entry of migrants on the state border where they will be registered and then ferried to their destinations.
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