Chennai: Former Finance Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram today asked the government to facilitate the travel of migrant workers to their hometowns under strict conditions of health and safety.
In a series of tweets, he cautioned the government that the desire of the people to be among their own could not be “suppressed for long in the name of a lockdown”.
He said,”The overwhelming mood and desire among migrant persons (and their families) is that, after 3 May , they should be allowed to go back to their home states/villages.”
Chidambaram added: “The desire to go back to their home states, to join their families, and to be among their own language-speaking people is an overpowering desire that cannot be suppressed for too long in the name of a lockdown.”