PATNA: JD (U) national general secretary K C Tyagi said on Saturday that Bihar CM and party chief Nitish Kumar spoke to Union home minister Amit Shah and requested him to ask all the state governments to take necessary steps to hold back migrant workers and students in their respective states till the end of lockdown. The Yogi Adityanath government had decided to bring back UP students from Kota in Rajasthan through special buses.
When asked why JD (U), despite being a BJP ally, was not lodging a formal complaint with the Centre over the Yogi government’s move, Tyagi told TOI, “Nitish ji has already urged the Union home minister to ask all state governments to hold back people and follow the guidelines of the lockdown.”
Tyagi said the Bihar government had lodged its protest with the Centre also on March 28 when the UP government sent 2,000 buses to Delhi border to transport migrant workers of UP and Bihar. “Only then the Centre didn’t allow migrant workers to board the buses at Anand Vihar. All those buses returned to UP,” Tyagi claimed.
He said the migrant workers, who reached the Bihar-UP border, were allowed entry only after proper screening. “The CMs of Punjab and Haryana also have agreed to Nitish’s appeal that people should stay where they are,” Tyagi said.
Earlier in the day, leader of opposition in Bihar assembly Tejashwi Prasad Yadav wrote a letter to Nitish, urging him to make necessary arrangements to bring back Bihari students from Kota on the pattern of UP government’s gesture to its students. Tejashwi also asked the CM to make necessary arrangements to bring back all Bihari migrant workers from other states.
“Why Bihar government is so insensitive towards its own people stranded in other states?” Tejashwi asked while accusing the state government of being in the state of “indecisiveness” on the issue.
Reacting over Tejashwi’s letter, Tyagi said the RJD leader should first declare his address of writing such letters. “People want to know from where Tejashwi is writing these letters. Where is he?” Tyagi said.
When asked why JD (U), despite being a BJP ally, was not lodging a formal complaint with the Centre over the Yogi government’s move, Tyagi told TOI, “Nitish ji has already urged the Union home minister to ask all state governments to hold back people and follow the guidelines of the lockdown.”
Tyagi said the Bihar government had lodged its protest with the Centre also on March 28 when the UP government sent 2,000 buses to Delhi border to transport migrant workers of UP and Bihar. “Only then the Centre didn’t allow migrant workers to board the buses at Anand Vihar. All those buses returned to UP,” Tyagi claimed.
He said the migrant workers, who reached the Bihar-UP border, were allowed entry only after proper screening. “The CMs of Punjab and Haryana also have agreed to Nitish’s appeal that people should stay where they are,” Tyagi said.
Earlier in the day, leader of opposition in Bihar assembly Tejashwi Prasad Yadav wrote a letter to Nitish, urging him to make necessary arrangements to bring back Bihari students from Kota on the pattern of UP government’s gesture to its students. Tejashwi also asked the CM to make necessary arrangements to bring back all Bihari migrant workers from other states.
“Why Bihar government is so insensitive towards its own people stranded in other states?” Tejashwi asked while accusing the state government of being in the state of “indecisiveness” on the issue.
Reacting over Tejashwi’s letter, Tyagi said the RJD leader should first declare his address of writing such letters. “People want to know from where Tejashwi is writing these letters. Where is he?” Tyagi said.
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