Around 700 tourists from West Bengal are stranded in Haridwar and they are unable to get back to their home due to the coronavirus lockdown in the country.
The Uttarakhand state government is in talks with the Mamata Banerjee led government but has not received any response from the government yet, says BJP Minister Madan Kaushik.
The stranded tourists said that they are not facing any problem but they want to return to their homes, they further added to it that they request Mamata Didi to make arrangements for us to return home.
Uttarakhand’s Cabinet Minster, Madan Kaushik in conversation with Newsd, said that they are providing all the facilities to to the stranded tourist but has not received any response from the former’s state government. He further added to it that Uttarakhand government have made all the arrangements from food to medical facilities for the stranded tourists.
The stranded tourists are staying in Ashrams and Hotels in Haridwar. They are not facing any difficulty in terms of food and medical facilities, says Minister Kaushik.
Apart from the residents who are returning to Uttarakhand, Kaushik said that about 25,730 people of other states stranded in Uttarakhand have also registered to return to their home states.
Earlier on Saturday evening, chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat in a video message said that he had spoken to the Centre for a special train from Delhi where about 50,000 of Uttarakhand residents are stranded.
“The ministry of railways has given permission for it and the train may soon start to bring our residents back. We have already made an advance payment of Rs 50 lakh to the Indian Railways for special trains so that they don’t charge the residents for a ticket. We are committed to bring all our residents back to their home,” said Rawat.
CM Mamata Banerjee launched a scathing attack on the Central government on Monday claiming that even after 5 meetings with the Prime Minister, the states have found no remedies of their problems as the Centre has not paid heed to any suggestions. The TMC supremo also pointed out the contradiction between lockdown orders and relaxations, urging PM Modi to allow the states to take a call on easing restrictions.
As the Centre and the state has been at loggerhead over the COVID data, the Chief Minister also apprised the Prime Minister that there are 1,374 active cases and 185 deaths in Bengal. She informed that the state has increased the number of testing labs and the testing has doubled from 2000 to 4000 per day in a week.
