Jharkhand govt failed to provide jobs to migrant workers: Raghubar Das

JAMSHEDPUR: The Hemant Soren-led mahagathbandhan government has failed to protect the interests of migrant labourers during the Covid-19 pandemic, said former chief minister Raghubar Das.
Das said on Sunday: “After the migrant workers from various parts of the country started coming back to Jharkhand, Hemant had promised to provide them jobs in Jharkhand itself. But he failed to do so and now the workers are going back to their workplaces.”
The former CM added that unemployed migrant workers have no choice but to return to their employers, who had abandoned them during Lockdown.
He said that the Hemant government has also failed to help the trading community, which has suffered economic losses for around three months. Moreover, Das alleged that JMM and its allies were promoting religious conversions in the state.
He said: “In the recent past, some members of the Mukhi community in Dhatkidih area were being converted. The matter when raised by the media was hushed up by the administration.” Das added that during his tenure, the anti-religious conversion law was passed in 2017. He said that this law should have been made just after the formation of Jharkhand, so that innocent tribals were not victimized.
Das demanded that the state government take up the conversion issue and punish the guilty.
Meanwhile, replying to a question, Das said his followers want him to contest the Bermo or Dumka bypolls on BJP ticket, but he is not willing to do it and wants to serve the party as an ordinary worker.