Raut slams Centre over migrants’ plight

Mumbai: Taking a swipe at the Centre over the plight of migrant labourers amidst the coronavirus-induced lockdown, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday said the humanity shown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi by washing the feet of conservatory workers seems to have vanished now.
In his weekly column published in the Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, Raut said, “Prime Minister Modi had washed the feet of four conservatory workers in Varanasi and showed us the humanity. It seems this humanity has vanished in the last three months”.
The PM had washed washed the feet of safai karamcharis (sanitation workers) during Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj last February as a mark of respect for their work.
Raut, who is the executive editor of the ‘Saamana’ and chief whip of the Sena in Parliament, also sought to draw parallels between “politicisation” of displacement of Kashmiri Pandits and the plight of migrant labourers, who are bearing the brunt of the lockdown. (PTI)