Srinagar, 08 May, (KNS): Jammu & Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) President G A Mir on Friday attended online video conferencing with AICC Treasurer & General Secretary (Org), briefing them over the handling of situation by Centre & UT Administration in wake of Covid-19.

According to statement issued to Kashmir News Service (KNS), JKPCC President during video conferencing gave feedback to AICC Treasurer Ahmed Patel (MP) & General Secretary (Org) K.C. Venugopal about the overall situation obtaining in the backdrop of the Lockdown.

He told the leaders that it was worth mentioning that the initiative of Congress President Sonia Gandhi to provide rail fare to the migrant labourers was hailed by common masses, besides putting the Govt at defensive, as that, the Centre has not been able to do anything for Stranded Labourers except making baseless statement and false promises.

Mir told the leaders that after failing to address the hardships confronting stranded labourers, besides the initiative taken by the Congress President, the Centre has started sabotaging the relief measures by trying to retain maximum number of migrant labourers in order to divert the attention from its utter failures.

He said that J&K Administration had claimed that around 40,000 stranded people outside JK, other than the stranded students, except some at the  border of Kathua, have not been brought back or granted permission to return, thereby adding more chaos to the alr