Amid a confrontation between the Congress and the UP authorities over plying of buses for migrants, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has requested Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to not play the “worst politics” over labourers.

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He additionally requested her to go to Madhya Pradesh to “study” about how labourers may be helped.

Hitting again, senior Congress chief Kamal Nath on Wednesday termed Chouhan’s claims on well-being of migrant labourers in Madhya Pradesh as a “joke and bunch of lies”.

Posting a sequence of tweets on Tuesday late night time, Chouhan claimed that his authorities had made very “efficient preparations” for the migrant labourers in transit.

“Priyanka ji, when you actually need to assist the employees, come to Madhya Pradesh. See our preparations right here and study, which is able to assist you to. You’ll not discover any employees hungry, thirsty or strolling on the land of Madhya Pradesh. We’ve got made efficient preparations,” Chouhan tweeted.

In one other tweet, Chouhan requested Gandhi Vadra to not use employees for “your worst form of politics through the time of the COVID disaster”.

“‘Unki hai lagegi’ (It will draw their curse). Together with them, this nation and the world are additionally clearly seeing the distinction between your phrases and deeds. Do not deceive however serve which is true politics,” he stated in one other tweet.

Reacting to the tweets on Wednesday, state Congress unit president Kamal Nath stated Chouhan speaks a bunch of lies anyway.

“Shivraj ji, communicate a number of lies, however at the very least don’t joke within the identify of the labourers. You might be speaking about preparations (for labourers) in Madhya Pradesh. Such an enormous lie. Not less than have some disgrace to not joke within the identify of the employees,” Nath stated.

He accused Chouhan of misrepresenting the bottom state of affairs concerning the migrants’ disaster.

“Even immediately, all main roads and borders of the state are full of hundreds of migrant employees..some are strolling barefoot with wounds on their toes whereas some are travelling readily available carts, bicycles, autos, vehicles in a bid to return their houses,” Nath stated in a press release.

Underlining the plight of migrant labourers, Nath said that many died in accidents or as a result of hunger.

“A fraud within the identify of buses has come to the sunshine in Madhya Pradesh. The bottom actuality is opposite to the variety of claims being made by the state authorities,” he stated.

The Congress and the Uttar Pradesh authorities are locked in a confrontation since Gandhi Vadra instructed chief minister Adityanath that the Congress had made accessible 1,000-odd buses to securely ferry migrants to their houses. Nonetheless, the Yogi authorities claimed {that a} listing of 1,000 buses contained registration numbers of autorickshaws, automobiles and vehicles.

On Tuesday, Uttar Pradesh Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu and Gandhi Vadra’s secretary had been booked by the police for ‘forgery’.