{"id":25045,"date":"2020-05-08T23:45:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/sudden-announcement-of-the-lockdown-in-march-opposition-slams-centre-for-aurangabad-migrant-workers-deaths\/"},"modified":"2020-05-08T23:45:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:15:09","slug":"sudden-announcement-of-the-lockdown-in-march-opposition-slams-centre-for-aurangabad-migrant-workers-deaths-mah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=25045","title":{"rendered":"Opposition slams Centre for Aurangabad migrant workers deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Govt.\u2019s apathy towards migrant labour to blame for 16 being run over by train\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/opposition-slams-centre-for-aurangabad-migrant-workers-deaths\/article31537451.ece\">PTI<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opposition parties on Friday held the Centre responsible for the death of 16 migrant workers, who were run over by a goods train in Aurangabad, contending that the sudden announcement of the lockdown in March coupled with the government\u2019s apathy towards the stranded labourers had led to the tragic incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi, in a post on Twitter, slammed the government for the treatment meted out to the migrant workers. \u201cI am shocked by the news of the killing of our labourer brothers and sisters as a result of being crushed by a goods train. We should be ashamed of the treatment being meted out to our nation builders. My condolences to the families of those killed and prayers for the early recovery of the injured,\u201d he tweeted in Hindi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"hi\" dir=\"ltr\">\u092e\u093e\u0932\u0917\u093e\u0921\u093c\u0940 \u0938\u0947 \u0915\u0941\u091a\u0932\u0947 \u091c\u093e\u0928\u0947 \u0938\u0947 \u092e\u091c\u0926\u0942\u0930 \u092d\u093e\u0908-\u092c\u0939\u0928\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u0947 \u092e\u093e\u0930\u0947 \u091c\u093e\u0928\u0947 \u0915\u0940 \u0916\u093c\u092c\u0930 \u0938\u0947 \u0938\u094d\u0924\u092c\u094d\u0927 \u0939\u0942\u0902\u0964 \u0939\u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0905\u092a\u0928\u0947 \u0930\u093e\u0937\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0930 \u0928\u093f\u0930\u094d\u092e\u093e\u0923\u0915\u0930\u094d\u0924\u093e\u0913\u0902 \u0915\u0947 \u0938\u093e\u0925 \u0915\u093f\u092f\u0947 \u091c\u093e \u0930\u0939\u0947 \u0935\u094d\u092f\u0935\u0939\u093e\u0930 \u092a\u0930 \u0936\u0930\u094d\u092e \u0906\u0928\u0940 \u091a\u093e\u0939\u093f\u090f\u0964 \u092e\u093e\u0930\u0947 \u0917\u090f \u0932\u094b\u0917\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u0947 \u092a\u0930\u093f\u0935\u093e\u0930\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u0947 \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0924\u093f  \u0938\u0902\u0935\u0947\u0926\u0928\u093e \u0935\u094d\u092f\u0915\u094d\u0924 \u0915\u0930\u0924\u093e \u0939\u0942\u0902 \u0914\u0930 \u0918\u093e\u092f\u0932\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u0947 \u0936\u0940\u0918\u094d\u0930 \u0938\u094d\u0935\u0938\u094d\u0925 \u0939\u094b\u0928\u0947 \u0915\u0940 \u092a\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0930\u094d\u0925\u0928\u093e \u0915\u0930\u0924\u093e \u0939\u0942\u0902\u0964<\/p>&mdash; Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RahulGandhi\/status\/1258612972890451968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that the lockdown had robbed the migrant workers of any means to make a living and demanded that the government should pay compensation and extend all possible help to those affected by the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201cheartbreaking incident\u201d had occurred due to \u201ccriminal\u201d neglect by the government, CPI (M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury asserted. \u201cThe death of these poor labourers is solely due to the sudden announcement of a lockdown and denial of transport to them for weeks, while not providing a substantive relief package. It is criminal what has been done to them by the Central govt,\u201d Mr. Yechury tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The death of these poor labour is solely due to the sudden announcement of a lockdown and denial of transport to them for weeks, while not providing a substantive relief package. It is criminal what has been done to them by the Central govt. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IEOMMugHtg\">https:\/\/t.co\/IEOMMugHtg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sitaram Yechury (@SitaramYechury) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SitaramYechury\/status\/1258645398689771520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe migrant workers are being treated in a most inhumane manner by the government,\u201d CPI General Secretary D. Raja said, terming the deaths in the accident a \u201cdeliberate killing\u201d. \u201cThey have practically left them to fend for themselves without any aid or help,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram in a series of tweets asserted that the Central and State governments appeared to be oblivious of the fact that thousands of migrant workers were still walking back to their home States. \u201cThe decision to provide buses and trains was hopelessly belated. Meanwhile lakhs of persons had begun their trek to their home states.\u201d Asserting that the transport policy was \u201cpoorly designed, planned, coordinated and implemented\u201d he said, \u201cOnce the policy was announced, government should have gone to the rescue of the trekkers and provided buses or trains to them to continue their journey\u201d. The tragedy could have been avoided if governments had gone to the rescue of the migrant workers in time, the Congress leader added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The decision to provide buses and trains was hopelessly belated. Meanwhile lakhs of persons had begun their trek to their home states.<\/p>&mdash; P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PChidambaram_IN\/status\/1258650912949628930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It is obvious that the transport policy of providing buses and trains to transport migrant workers was poorly designed, planned, coordinated and  implemented.<\/p>&mdash; P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PChidambaram_IN\/status\/1258650910638501888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Once the policy was announced, government should have gone to the rescue of the trekkers and provided buses or trains to them to continue their journey.<\/p>&mdash; P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PChidambaram_IN\/status\/1258650915541618689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Govt.\u2019s apathy towards migrant labour to blame for 16 being run over by train\u2019 PTI Opposition parties on Friday held the Centre responsible for the death of 16 migrant workers, who were run over by a goods train in Aurangabad, contending that the sudden announcement of the lockdown in March coupled with the government\u2019s apathy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}