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Migrant laborers

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‘Tere baap ke baap ke baap ko bhi baat karni padegi’: SP MLA Abu Azmi humiliates senior lady police officer, demands her suspension

OpIndia Staff - 28 May, 2020

Samajwadi party leader Abu Azmi has alleged that the officer insulted him when he questioned her about the police's apathy towards migrant workers.

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25 lakh migrant workers returned to state so far amidst Coronavirus pandemic: UP CM Yogi Adityanath

OpIndia Staff - 25 May, 2020

The Yogi Adityanath govt has been working relentlessly to provide employment and various other facilities to the migrant workers who have returned to the state amidst the nationwide lockdown

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Trains have been going back empty because of Uddhav Thackeray government’s failure to provide details of migrants: Piyush Goyal

OpIndia Staff - 25 May, 2020

Goyal stated that train journeys have to be planned and the ministry does not want that after all the preparations and planning, the trains only idle on respective stations and are eventually cancelled as it had happened before.

Politics

A ghar wapsi of another kind – Yogi Adityanath is on a mission to shine in this too

Rajiv Srivastava - 22 May, 2020

Ghar wapsi of non-Hindus made Yogi an icon of Hindutva, now the ghar wapsi of migrant laborers can catapult him to a new status.

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Buses for migrant workers: Priyanka Gandhi’s aide Sandeep Singh and UP Congress president Ajay Lallu booked for forgery and cheating

OpIndia Staff - 19 May, 2020

Congress party also moved the buses carrying migrants to the Uttar Pradesh border without obtaining the necessary passes

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Bihar: 8% of initial lot samples from migrant workers returned to state tested coronavirus positive so far, similar patterns in Jharkhand

OpIndia Staff - 19 May, 2020

Principal Health Secretary of Jharkhand Dr Nitin Madan Kulkarni said, "With thousands still returning home every day, we do not have the infrastructure to put all of them in institutional quarantine."

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