Bihar: Upendra Kushwaha stages dharna on road

PATNA: Defying the lockdown on Wednesday, Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) chief and former Union minister Upendra Kushwaha sat on one-day dharna on Beerchand Patel Marg here to protest the alleged shoddy conditions prevailing at the quarantine centres where migrant workers have been kept after their return from other states.
“I had written a letter to CM Nitish Kumar, giving suggestions as to how the things could be improved at the quarantine centres.But the CM has not taken any note of it,” Kushwaha said. “It is for this reason that I decided to defy the lockdown and sit on a dharna on the road, along with our party leaders, to bring it to the knowledge of the CM that he and his party would continue to make open protests if the situation did not improve,” he added.
RLSP’s state president Bhudeo Choudhary, treasurer Rajesh Yadav and spokesman Abhishek, among other functionaries, accompanied Kushwaha, maintaining social distancing, party’s state spokesman Bhola Sharma said, adding that RLSP functionaries also sat on dharna at the party’s district headquarters.
“The migrant workers returning from other states have been facing problems, like insecurity and lack of work opportunities. Their health conditions are also poor,” Kushwaha said. “They have been virtually left to fend for themselves by the state government. The situation as it is, people of the state themselves will have to take care for protection from coronavirus,” Kushwaha said and threatened to intensify the agitation if the conditions of the migrant workers and the poor did not improve.