Apologise or prove allegations: TMC on Shah's migrants' trains letter

Demanding that Union Home Minister Amit Shah should apologise or prove his allegations that the West Bengal government was not allowing trains with migrant workers into the state, senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee alleged on Saturday that the Union home minister was spreading a “bundle of lies” after staying silent for weeks.

Banerjee, the nephew of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, said Shah was talking about the very people who have been left to fate by the Centre.

“A HM failing to discharge his duties during this crisis speaks after weeks of silence, only to mislead people with bundle of lies! Ironically hes talking about the very ppl whove been literally left to fate by his own Govt. Mr @AmitShah, prove your fake allegations or apologise (sic),” he tweeted.

Earlier, Union Home Minister Amit Shah had alleged that the West Bengal government was not allowing trains with migrant workers reach the state and added that the move may further create hardship for the labourers.

In a letter to Mamata Banerjee, Shah had stated that not allowing trains to reach the state is “injustice” to the migrant workers.

Referring to the Shramik Special trains being run by the central government to facilitate transport of migrant workers from different parts of the country to various destinations, the home minister said in the letter that the Centre had facilitated the return of more than two lakh migrants workers to their respective homes.

Shah added that migrant workers from West Bengal were also eager to reach home and the central government was facilitating their travel through train services.

“But we are not getting expected support from the West Bengal. The state government of West Bengal is not allowing the trains reaching to West Bengal. This is injustice with West Bengal migrant labourers. This will create further hardship for them,” Shah wrote.