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Bengal not cooperating, Shah tells Mamata


Bengal not cooperating, Shah tells Mamata

Home Minister writes to CM on migrants’ travel

10/05/2020, VIJAITA SINGH,NEW DELHI

A May 7 photo of migrant workers hailing from West Bengal on the road at Gannavaram, Andhra Pradesh.T. VIJAYA_KUMAR

Union Home Minister Amit Shah sent a letter to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday stating that the State government was not allowing special trains and it was an “injustice” to stranded migrant workers.

The letter said that the Central government had facilitated more than two lakh migrants reach home.

“Migrants from West Bengal are also eager to reach home. Central govt. is facilitating but we are not getting expected support from W.B. State Government, which is not allowing the trains to reach W.B. This is injustice with W.B. migrant labourers. This will create further hardship for them,” the letter said.

The Railways has been running Shramik Special trains on the request of State governments to help the migrant workers stuck in various parts of the country due to the ongoing nationwide lockdown to reach home.

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