Lucknow: Priyanka Gandhi, general secretary of the All India Congress Committee and in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, made a passionate appeal to migrant labourers in the video message.
In the video released by the General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi has said that I have been talking to the migrant labourers of UP who have been trapped in different states for several days. I spoke to people trapped in Rajasthan, Delhi, Surat, Indore, Bhopal, Mumbai and other states. What is their biggest problem? They went to different cities to do wages. The lockdown occurred. Wages stopped ration is also over. Now six to eight people are locked in a room. Very nervous, very scared and want to go home anyway. And we can’t blame them that you want to go home. We and you also want to be with your family.
She said that we should try to find a solution to their problem. It is everyone’s responsibility, mine, yours. Every government has it. Regardless of the responsibility of each labourer of UP, wherever they are. Be in any region. In any country, it is the responsibility of the UP government. We cannot leave them that way.
I want to congratulate the UP government that you made arrangements to bring students home from Kota. But these workers are also yours. These are ours too. Their families are distressed, upset, nervous. They have nothing to eat. They do not have ration. We are unable to bring it home. Priyanka Gandhi has said in the video message that I want to urge that there should be a helpline, control room of thousands of people. At least these people can tell their problems. So that they can be helped by other governments. She said that the second thing we have to solve their problem in some way or the other. A plan should be made so that gradually they can come in their district. See, we cannot leave them like this. My appeal is to every countryman, to the government of UP that we help them.
