Politics

Siddaramaiah's comments comes amid talks of dissent within the BJP following recent meetings by a section of party legislators that set alarm bells ringing in the party.

The Home Minister added that other states had behaved responsibly, accepted migrant workers in large numbers and allowed more trains, but Bengal had not done the same.

CPI(M) member Mohammed Salim said leaders like Dilip Ghosh want to remain in a "make-belief world of the BJP which says everything is happening for good in BJP regime".

The Congress has been demanding cash transfer directly to the people's account to the tune of Rs 65,000 crore.

This is prime minister’s first official trip outside Delhi since the lockdown necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic was announced.

Brought to the state capital late Wednesday night, Lallu was first taken for a medical examination to a hospital and was later produced before a magisterial court, which remanded him in judicial custody.

The petition was listed for hearing on May 18 before a bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde but was not taken up as the bench did not assemble.

The Uttar Pradesh government is capable of dealing with issue of migrant workers and the Congress should worry about migrants in the states of Rajasthan and Punjab where it is in power.

Gandhi’s attack followed her appeal on Sunday where she asked the chief minister to allow buses ferrying migrants from Rajasthan into Uttar Pradesh.

Chidambaram also accused the government of being opportunistic by pushing reforms. It is bypassing Parliament and a discussion on the package and this will be strongly resisted, he added.

Shrikant Sharma listed various initiatives taken by the Centre to mitigate the hardships of the migrant labourers.

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said the railways minister is giving challenges on the issue of pending permissions for trains by the state.

Anand Sharma said the country believed that PM Modi was serious when he made the "dramatic" announcement of giving 10 per cent of the GDP as a package to revive the economy and support workers and migrant labourers.

Thanking the prime minister and Sitharaman, Nadda in a series of tweets said in this testing time, India has a compassionate and responsive government under the leadership of Narendra Modi.

Jogi was admitted in Shree Narayana Hospital on May 9 after he suffered a cardiac and respiratory arrest. As per doctors, a sweet tamarind seed had got stuck in Jogi's windpipe.

The newspaper, Saamana, however, did not make it clear whether it blamed the BJP-led Centre or the Shiv Sena-led Maharashtra government for the tragedy.