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The Allahabad High Court today granted bail to Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu while questioning his party's offer to provide buses for migrant workers, the issue which triggered a row with the state government and also led to his arrest.

The BCCI posted a video of Mohammed Shami of handing out food packets and masks to people travelling in buses and those at the food distribution centres.

A special MP-MLA court on Monday rejected the bail plea of Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajai Kumar Lallu, arrested on charges of alleged forgery of documents of buses arranged by his party for ferrying stranded migrant labourers during the coronavirus lockdown.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav hit out at the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, claiming that despite having over 70,000 buses in its fleet, labourers had to walk home amid the COVID-19 lockdown resulting in many deaths.

Political parties in Uttar Pradesh today accused the Congress and its government in Rajasthan of double standards over buses for migrant workers as the UP government cleared a Rs 36 lakh bill sent by Rajasthan for sending back UP students stranded in Kota.

Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot on Friday accused the UP government of petty politics over the issue of buses for migrants, while another state minister demanded action against Yogi Adityanath for allegedly defying the Centre's orders on vehicles.

A day after the standoff between the BJP-led Uttar Pradesh government and the Congress over the latter's offer to provide 1,000 buses for migrants, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra claimed those trying to help stranded labourers are being jailed and asked party workers to carry on.

Rebel Congress MLA from Raebareli Aditi Singh on Wednesday lashed out at her own party for playing "cheap politics" over the issue of Priyanka Gandhi arranging 1,000 buses to ferry stranded migrant labourers to their homes amid the nationwide lockdown.

Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu was granted bail by an Agra court today and released before being arrested again by a team of Lucknow police in a second case filed in connection with the Congress standoff with the UP government over arrangement of buses for migrant workers.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today recalled the buses she had arranged for migrants after the Congress waited till 4 pm for Uttar Pradesh to allow them in. Hundreds of buses had lined up at Delhi's border with Uttar Pradesh since morning, with Congress leaders protesting at the site.

Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu was arrested in Agra after he sat on a dharna for grant of permission to the buses arranged by the party to enter the state, police said.

After waiting for 14 hours, hundreds of migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh boarded buses from Sonipat but the promised ride home never did happen and they were dropped off at a shelter home in the Haryana town itself.

In an escalating political fight with Yogi Adityanath over buses for migrants, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday accused the Uttar Pradesh government of "crossing all limits". The Congress general secretary, who had offered to run 1,000 buses to take stranded workers home, tweeted: "When we got a chance to set aside politics to help desperate migran...

Hours after a letter war broke out between the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra over buses to take migrant workers home, the Uttar Pradesh government has written another letter to the Congress leader, asking for 500 buses each to be sent to Noida and Ghaziabad that border Delhi.

This is the first time she came out of her village, and it will be her last, vowed Raji Devi as she watched, with tears blurring her vision, a bus carrying migrant workers drove away into the distance. The elderly woman, perhaps in her 70s, is among the thousands of migrants across the country waiting in seemingly never-ending queues in their despe...

The Allahabad High Court today granted bail to Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu while questioning his party's offer to provide buses for migrant workers, the issue which triggered a row with the state government and also led to his arrest.

The BCCI posted a video of Mohammed Shami of handing out food packets and masks to people travelling in buses and those at the food distribution centres.

A special MP-MLA court on Monday rejected the bail plea of Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajai Kumar Lallu, arrested on charges of alleged forgery of documents of buses arranged by his party for ferrying stranded migrant labourers during the coronavirus lockdown.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav hit out at the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, claiming that despite having over 70,000 buses in its fleet, labourers had to walk home amid the COVID-19 lockdown resulting in many deaths.

Political parties in Uttar Pradesh today accused the Congress and its government in Rajasthan of double standards over buses for migrant workers as the UP government cleared a Rs 36 lakh bill sent by Rajasthan for sending back UP students stranded in Kota.

Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot on Friday accused the UP government of petty politics over the issue of buses for migrants, while another state minister demanded action against Yogi Adityanath for allegedly defying the Centre's orders on vehicles.

A day after the standoff between the BJP-led Uttar Pradesh government and the Congress over the latter's offer to provide 1,000 buses for migrants, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra claimed those trying to help stranded labourers are being jailed and asked party workers to carry on.

Rebel Congress MLA from Raebareli Aditi Singh on Wednesday lashed out at her own party for playing "cheap politics" over the issue of Priyanka Gandhi arranging 1,000 buses to ferry stranded migrant labourers to their homes amid the nationwide lockdown.

Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu was granted bail by an Agra court today and released before being arrested again by a team of Lucknow police in a second case filed in connection with the Congress standoff with the UP government over arrangement of buses for migrant workers.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today recalled the buses she had arranged for migrants after the Congress waited till 4 pm for Uttar Pradesh to allow them in. Hundreds of buses had lined up at Delhi's border with Uttar Pradesh since morning, with Congress leaders protesting at the site.

Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu was arrested in Agra after he sat on a dharna for grant of permission to the buses arranged by the party to enter the state, police said.

After waiting for 14 hours, hundreds of migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh boarded buses from Sonipat but the promised ride home never did happen and they were dropped off at a shelter home in the Haryana town itself.

In an escalating political fight with Yogi Adityanath over buses for migrants, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday accused the Uttar Pradesh government of "crossing all limits". The Congress general secretary, who had offered to run 1,000 buses to take stranded workers home, tweeted: "When we got a chance to set aside politics to help desperate migran...

Hours after a letter war broke out between the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra over buses to take migrant workers home, the Uttar Pradesh government has written another letter to the Congress leader, asking for 500 buses each to be sent to Noida and Ghaziabad that border Delhi.

This is the first time she came out of her village, and it will be her last, vowed Raji Devi as she watched, with tears blurring her vision, a bus carrying migrant workers drove away into the distance. The elderly woman, perhaps in her 70s, is among the thousands of migrants across the country waiting in seemingly never-ending queues in their despe...