On Friday, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) double-engine government of violence against migrant workers in their respective states.
Reshma (34), the wife of Jinesh P Sukumaran (38), who consumed poison, was admitted to a hospital but died on Wednesday while undergoing treatment.
Continuing his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remark that the ‘DMK is harassing Biharis’, made at an election rally in poll-bound Bihar, Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday dared him to repeat the same in Tamil Nadu, which welcomes migrant workers and entrepreneurs, ensuring they live in peace and happiness.
The hearing comes amid concerns over the alleged detention of Bengali migrant labourers by Delhi Police over suspicion of being illegal Bangladeshi migrants.
As the poll battle is poised to be tough and intriguing, each of the votes does carry its value. Parties in the fray are in no mood to take chances to ignore the worth of migrant workers’ votes in the upcoming twin polls.
Out of Singapore's 58,341 total positive PCR tests to date, 93% have been among that migrant worker community.
The solution lies with the complete transformation of economic and administrative processes, practices and policies to enable rural India to face up to the issues that the coronavirus-induced reverse migration has thrown up
The rush to return from one of Odisha’s worst affected districts would normally have raised no cavil if the workers had not violated the stipulation that determines the inter-state border movement of labourers, notably the Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979.
'The sad part is that the government does not care about the loss of lives,' he said.
The government said that it had also not kept track of the job losses amid the pandemic.
