Lockdown Is Unplanned, PM Modi Did Not Think About Migrant Labourers
Mumbai: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi said on Friday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not take into account the status of migrant laborers while announcing a nationwide lockout.
“The lockdown announced by our Prime Minister was unplanned. He did not think of migrant laborers from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Jharkhand working in urban cities,” Owaisi said.
Giving the example of a 12-year-old girl who died of exhaustion after walking more than 100 km from Telangana to Chhattisgarh, he said, “Migrant laborers are suffering and some are even resorting to committing suicide as the lockdown has scared them and they are unable to reach their homes.”
Owaisi also said that most of these migrant laborers have neither bank account nor ration card, hence, “the government should give them money based on their Aadhaar card number.”
“The surplus rice in godowns should be distributed to the needy people instead of using it to make sanitizers as proposed by the Food Corporation of India,” the AIMIM chief said while adding that Rs 30,000 crore Central Vista project which was approved by the Centre should be stopped and the money should be diverted to help the needy people.
Questioning the Centre’s plan after the lockdown was over, he asked, “What will happen to the migrants, and will they get back their jobs?”
He also took a dig at the recent remarks made by Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on the people present in the Tablighi Jamaat. “You said that coronavirus does not target a particular community but didn’t a member of your Cabinet say Talibani Jamaat instead of Tableeghi Jamaat.”
Speaking recently on the lynching of three saints in Maharashtra, the AIMIM chief condemned the incident, saying, “I was surprised to see a BJP member, on an international stage, saying that Muslims were behind that lynching incident. This surprised me and later it was revealed to everyone that the attackers were not Muslims.”
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