Row over spray of chemicals on migrants in UP’s Bareilly; BJP tweets similar video from Kerala

NEW DELHI: A row erupted on Monday after a video showed some officials in UP’s Bareilly district spraying chemicals on migrants who were returning to their villages from Delhi and Noida.

Reacting to the video, the district magistrate of Bareilly, Nitish Kumar, assured action against erring “over-eager” officials who were told to sanitize the buses.

Amid criticism from political opponents, the BJP, cited a similar incident in Kerala a few days back and said that its government in Uttar Pradesh was being unfairly targeted as CM Yogi Adityanath was doing a “good job” in fighting covid-19.

BJP leader Amit Malviya tweeted a video from Kerala in which authorities are seen mass ‘spraying’ people crossing th