LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday said the list of 1,000 buses offered by the Congress to ferry migrant workers contained registration numbers of two-wheelers and cars, fuelling a war of words between the two sides.
The Congress, however, challenged the UP government to conduct a “physical verification” of the buses it has brought to the state’s border to take UP’s stranded workers home.
Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya accused the party of coming up with a scam. “The Congress has got trapped in its own net of deceit,” he tweeted in Hindi.
The UP government’s claim reignited the row over the offer made on May 16 by Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to provide 1,000 buses for migrant workers.
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The Congress initially claimed that the state’s BJP government was ignoring the offer with chief minister Yogi Adityanath even refusing to give an appointment to a party delegation seeking a meeting.
Even while accusing the Congress of playing politics over the