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Hours after Congress said it would bear travel expense of every migrant, Centre to now pay 85%

Hours after Congress President Sonia Gandhi issued a statement on Monday announcing that the Congress would bear the travel expense of every migrant worker stranded due to COVID-19 lockdown, the Central government said it would now bear 85% of the entire cost. BJP MP Subramanian Swamy claimed migrant labourers would travel free of cost as the government will pay 85% and the state government will bear 15% of the expenses. He added that the Ministry would soon clarify the same with an official statement.

However, Swamy had earlier criticised the Centre by saying:

Swamy’s recent tweet

Gandhi had announced that every Pradesh Congress Committee in the country would bear the cost for the rail travel of every needy worker and migrant labourer.

Gandhi declared the same after accusing the Central government and the railways of completely ignoring Congress demands of ensuring safe and free travel of migrant workers and labourers back to their homes.She said, There needs to be provisions for the safe and free rail travel of migrant workers and labourers to their home-towns. However, despite our repeated demands, the central government and the Rail Ministry have chosen to completely ignore the same.

Gandhi said, When government could arrange free air travel for our citizens stranded abroad, could spend Rs 100 crores for just one event, when the Railway Ministry could donate Rs 151crores to PM-Cares, can’t migrant workers travel for free??

She asked the Centre why couldn’t the same responsibility be shown towards the poor migrants who are considered ambassadors of the nation’s growth.

Cabinet Minister in the Maharashtra government and Guardian Minister of Nagpur Dr Nitin Raut bore expenses to send back migrants from Nagpur by rail. Similarly, Karnataka Congress spokesperson Ravi Gowda said, Our party’s state unit president DK Shivakumar gave Rs 1 crore through cheque to the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) towards the cost of bus fare for sending the migrant workers to their native places across the state from Bengaluru.

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Nitin Gadkari graces screening of ‘Me Vasantrao’ at Sudama Theatre in Nagpur

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Union Minister Nitin Gadkari graced the special screening of Marathi movie ‘Me Vasantrao’ – a movie based on the life of Hindustani classical singer and violinist Vasantrao Deshpande.

The screening was held at Sudama Theatre in Nagpur on Sunday evening in the presence family members, friends and the cast of the movie.

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Mayor Dayashankari Tiwari kicks off polio drive in Nagpur

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Nagpur Mayor Dayashankar Tiwari, on Sunday, launched Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s (NMC) door-to-door polio campaign drive. He, along with Deputy Mayor Manisha Dhawade visited Rognidan Centre in Mahal, Nagpur and inaugurated the campaign by giving polio drops to a toddler.
As per NMC officials, ten Zonal Medical Officers and Ten Health inspectors would visit every house in their respective zones, in order to vaccinate children between the ages of zero-five to immune them against polio.
NMC had recognised Sunday as the official day for polio vaccination. Under Polio Ravivar, they plan to vaccinate more than three lakh kids in Nagpur. They also urged Nagpurkars to vaccinate their children at pulse Polio Booths near their homes from 8 am- 5 pm, on Sunday.
NMC Standing Committee Chief, Corporator Vijay Zalke spoke to Nation Next regarding this campaign and said, This year’s polio drive is going to be bigger than last year. We are planning to vaccinate around 3- 3.15 lakh kids. NMC is bearing the cost of infrastructure and execution. The state government provided us with the doses.
He further stated that there were special teams to vaccinate the homeless during night. ?When it comes to the health of Nagpurkars, money is not a factor we should think about, said Zalke when asked about NMC’s current financial crunch.
As per Zalke, vaccination facility would also be available in slums,, factory areas and other outskirts of Nagpur.

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Congress legislator caught watching porn in Karnataka Assembly

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Congress leader Prakash Rathod, on Friday, was caught on camera while allegedly scrolling through few adult content clips in the State Assembly. This turned out to be a huge embarrassment for both, Congress and Rathod as regional channels aired the video, in which he was ?caught in the act.
The MLC member was present in the house during the proceedings of the legislative council. While the house was in session, Rathod was watching adult content on his smartphone.
However, he threw these charges under the bus and said, I was looking for materials for a question I wanted to ask the government in question hour.
?When I was looking for question material, I deleted too many messages as my phone storage was full. What the media has shown or seen, I don’t know. I would never do such things or see such things, he added.
This was not the first time in Karnataka that such an incident had happened. Back in 2012, three Bharatiya Janata Party ministers were caught on camera allegedly watching adult content in the State Assembly. Following the scandal, they resigned from the state government due to public embarrassment.

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