Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday termed the gathering of migrant workers and labourers near Bandra (W) railway station as “unfortunate” while stating that such incidents should not occur again in the backdrop of coronavirus outbreak.
The veteran politician added that precautions should be taken in order to ensure that confusing messages and rumours don’t go out. The migrant workers and labourers gathered outside Bandra railway station after rumours that train services will resume, Pawar added.
During his interaction via Facebook Live, Pawar expressed that an unfortunate incident outside Bandra station where people gathered after hearing rumours that the train services will resume and no social distancing was observed.
Pawar also asked the political parties to stop the political blame-game over the Bandra gathering incident amid the coronavirus lockdown while appealing them to collectively combat the COVID-19 outbreak.
“I request political parties that it is not the time to score over each other but to fight against the coronavirus. We may fight politically but it is not the time to think who is in power at the centre and in the state. We should take steps to defeat the coronavirus,” Sharad Pawar said.
Over 3,000 migrant workers and labourers gathered near Bandra (W) railway station and were later dispersed as the police lathi-charged them. The migrants say that they are stranded in the city due to the nationwide lockdown as they have no money and food.
This happened on Wednesday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the nationwide lockdown will remain till May 3. Moreover, there were rumours that the train services will resume for the migrant workers and labourers to go home.
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