Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has blamed the Congress leadership for the accident in Auraiya in which 26 migrants were killed and more than 30 were injured over the weekend.
The Uttar Pradesh unit of the Congress accused the state government of being insensitive towards the plight of migrant workers and demanded the Chief Minister's resignation. The Samajwadi Party had called it "murder".
Yogi Adityanath said the migrants who faced the brunt of the accident -- which took place 200 km from the state capital Lucknow -- were from the Congress-ruled states of Rajasthan and Punjab.
"The Congress leadership should understand that one truck (involved in the accident) was from Rajasthan, while the other was coming from Punjab," Yogi Adityanath was quoted as saying by news agency Press Trust of India.
"A hefty amount of money was taken from the migrant labourers, who were returning to Bihar and Jharkhand. What were they (Congress) doing then? You will exploit people and then put up an honest face," he added.
"The (Hindi) idiom ''100 chuhe khaakar, billi Haj ko chali (a cat seeking salvation after consuming 100 rats)'' fits on the Congress today. This is the shameful face of the Congress. I condemn the Congress leadership for making fun of the migrant labourers.
