After Top Court Raps Centre, Congress Hits Out At Government Over Unorganised Workers' Database Issue

Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the Supreme Court's "stinging indictment of the labour ministry warrants the sacking of the labour minister and Prime Minister Narendra Modi should tender an apology to India's migrant labourers".

After the Supreme Court rapped the Centre for failing to create a database on unorganised workers, the Congress on Tuesday hit out at the government demanding immediate sacking of the labour minister and an apology from the prime minister. Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the Supreme Court's "stinging indictment of the labour ministry warrants the sacking of the labour minister and Prime Minister Narendra Modi should tender an apology to India's migrant labourers". He also demanded fixing of responsibility of Union Home Minister Amit Shah for mishandling the migration crisis during the lockdown. "The Supreme Court judgement is a wake-up call and an eye opener for the unpardonable sins committed by the Modi government, in ignoring the plight and miseries of the ''nirmatas'' of urban India - the migrant labourers and treating them as outsider- second class citizens, pushed to the margin to fend for themselves in the middle of Covid-19 pandemic," he said in a statement.