PM Modi calls Delhi CM Kejriwal over Anand Vihar situation

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday called CM Arvind Kejriwal to know about the situation at Anand Vihar ISBT where thousands of people had walked down hoping to get buses to their hometowns.
Sources said Kejriwal informed the PM that Delhi government had made arrangements for food and shelter and his ministers had been requesting people to go back to their homes, but to no avail.He also told Modi that the spike in crowd was witnessed after UP government announced that it would provide buses at Delhi borders to ferry them.
Kejriwal and deputy CM Manish Sisodia have been urging people leaving the city to stay back. They also made an appeal to them to learn from the situations arising in other countries. At a time when Covid-19 cases are increasing, migrating in huge groups will put them at risk. Sisodia tweeted that the crowd at Anand Vihar also included people who had come from Punjab, Rajasthan and Haryana.
Delhi government provided food to four lakh people in the city on Saturday. Kejriwal asked AAP MLAs to reach out to people in their constituencies and appeal to them not to leave Delhi.
Since the lockdown was announced, people have started marching on foot with their children in tow to their hometowns in UP, Rajasthan, Haryana and Bihar. They are throwing all caution of social distancing to the wind and exposing themselves to novel coronavirus. Since the number of positive cases are rising, the authorities are worried about the vulnerability of such people.