Congress' offer to pay for migrants fare termed as 'street play' by BJP minister

Dubbing Congress’ announcement to bear the bus fare of migrant workers to return to their native, a 'street play', Karnataka Minister for Medical Education Dr K Sudhakar on Tuesday accused the party of ‘playing politics’ even on the issue of COVID-19 and compared its (Congress) mindset to Roman emperor Nero.

He said the Congress instead of giving money to the concerned as per rules, was advertising about it. “Looking at Congress moving around in the streets and advertising about its willingness to pay the bus and train fares for the labourers, it is clear that it is a big street play.

Instead of giving money to the concerned as per rules, they are making loud claims about it in front of cameras,” Sudhakar said in a tweet.

There is no deference between your (Congress) mind set- looking at politics and gaining mileage out of it even on the issue of corona, and that of Nero, because Nero was fiddling when Rome was burning,” he said in another tweet.

The AICC supremo on Monday had stated that its state units will bear the cost of rail travel of needy migrant workers stranded at their workplaces due to the corona virus-induced lockdown and seeking to return home.