Hyderabad: Uttam Kumar Reddy urges cadre to help migrant workers

The TPCC chief strongly condemned the State government decision to open liquor shops amid lockdown. He said poor people had lost their sources of income and many of them would waste whatever money they had on liquor consumption

Hyderabad: Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Saturday appealed to party cadre to help the migrant workers in all possible ways.

In a live interaction with party workers through social media platform Facebook on Saturday, Uttam Kumar informed that Congress president Sonia Gandhi had directed the Pradesh Congress Committees (PCCs) to take care of rail transport costs for migrant workers who wish to return to their native States. As per Sonia Gandhi's direction, he said the Congress cadre should arrange food, shelter and other facilities for the migrant workers who wish to stay in Telangana and arrange train tickets for those who want to return to their homes.

The TPCC chief praised the services being rendered by the Congress cadres across the Telangana State in providing food and other help to the poor and needy during the last 45 days of lockdown. He said that the Congress high command appreciated their services.

Uttam Kumar Reddy said that after Sonia Gandhi's announcement that Congress party would bear the travelling cost of migrant workers, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao announced that the State government would make all the arrangements. However, he said the Chief Minister was neither reliable nor serious in helping the migrant labourers.

The TPCC chief strongly condemned the State government decision to open liquor shops amid lockdown.

He said poor people had lost their sources of income and many of them would waste whatever money they had on liquor consumption. On one side, the State government was giving Rs 1,500 to poor people and on the other side, it was collecting Rs 3,000 from them by opening liquor shops, he slammed.