Railway minister Piyush Goyal and Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday engaged in a war of words on Twitter over Shramik special trains from Maharashtra.
Piyush Goyal took a dig at Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray through a tweet, saying the Railways was ready to send as many trains as required to states, provided they do not “return empty”.
“I hope that these trains will not have to leave empty after arriving at the station like it has happened earlier. I would like to assure you that the trains you need will be available,” tweeted Piyush Goyal, referring to earlier occasions when migrants did not board special trains.
In an address to the state on Sunday, the Maharashtra CM said that while he had demanded 80 migrant special trains per day for the state to ferry migrants home, it was getting only 40. He also said that the state had paid Rs 85 crore so far towards these trains.
Piyush Goyal tweeted, ¨We are ready to provide 125 Shramik Special trains to Maharashtra. Since you have said that you have a list ready that is why I am requesting you to please provide all information like from where the train will run, the list of passengers according to the trains, their medical certificate and where the train is to go, to the General Manager of Central Railway within the next hour, so that we can plan the time of trains,” .
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