Maharashtra minister and NCPleader Nawab Malik on Monday alleged that the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh was purposefully putting stringent conditions for repatriation of migrants staying in Maharashtra in a bid to avoid accepting them."The UP government has laid down conditions that the migrant workers from UP should be COVID-19 negative. There are some 25 lakh migrant workers in Mumbai and rest of Maharashtra."It (putting such conditions) means the UP government does not want these people to come back," the minister said."If we have to complete the tests on these people, the Maharashtra government will need one-and-a-half years to cover the entire population," he said.Malik said the Uttar Pradesh government should accept the migrants like other states.
