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BJP exploiting migrant workers' eagerness to reach home: Akhilesh

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Press Trust of India Lucknow
Last Updated : May 20 2020 | 6:18 PM IST

Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav alleged on Wednesday that the BJP is exploiting the eagerness of migrant labourers to reach home to serve its "political self-interest".

"The tales of migrant labourers struggling to reach home are saddening. They are getting killed in accidents daily. But the unconcerned BJP has no care for human values. It is exploiting their eagerness to reach home for its political self-interest," he said in a statement issued here.

"When 50,000 government, private and school buses are standing, why are those not being utilised to send the migrants back home?" Yadav asked.

Without taking the name of any party, he said, "Those who are extending a helping hand are being meted out inhuman treatment, which has become routine behaviour of the BJP."

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First Published: May 20 2020 | 6:18 PM IST

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