Congress delighting in theatrics over migrant workers, states Nirmala Sitharaman

Blasting the Congress’s criticism of the federal government over the predicament of migrant workers, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday implicated the celebration of delighting in “dramebaazi” or theatrics in sitting with employees on the roads rather than directing the State governments to work with the Centre to send more migrants home by train.

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On Saturday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had actually been shot sitting on the pavement and talking with migrant employees going back to their home States as they went through a south Delhi area.

” It would have been better if he had strolled with them while bring their children and baggage,” Ms. Sitharaman said in reaction to a concern at an interview on the stimulus package. “Was it not ‘dramebaazi’ to sit and squander the time of migrants who were strolling on the roadways?” Instead of playing politics, the Congress management must direct its State federal governments and those led by its allies to work together with the Centre, she stated.

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