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Has Covid-19 Brought The Congress Back In The Game?
Outlook
|May 18, 2020
Has COVID-19 brought the Congress back in the game?
Early morning on May 4, interim Congress president Sonia Gandhi announced that her party was prepared to foot the bill for transporting stranded migrant workers by rail to their home states. The message sent the Centre scampering for cover amid mounting criticism of its apparent decision to charge migrants not just the train fare, but also a surcharge. Within hours, Lav Agarwal, joint secretary (health) at the Centre, told the media that the fare would be split 85:15 between the Centre and the respective states.
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