{"id":321569,"date":"2020-03-28T07:15:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T07:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321569"},"modified":"2020-04-06T10:35:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T10:35:14","slug":"rahul-gandhi-appeals-to-people-to-help-migrants-heading-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-appeals-to-people-to-help-migrants-heading-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi appeals to people to help migrants heading home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-310205 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rahul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Rahul.jpg 474w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Rahul-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Rahul-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday appealed to people, leaders and party workers to help the migrants trying to reach their homes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He urged people to help the migrants by offering food and shelter as they are moving on foot to their homes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Today, hundreds of our brothers and sisters, along with their hungry and thirsty families have to head to homes in their villages on foot. Please help them, those of you can by offering them food, shelter and water,\u201d Rahul Gandhi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cA special appeal to Congress workers and leaders,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After PM Modi announced a nationwide lockdown due to COVID-19, several migrants have been marching to their homes in villages, covering a journey of hundreds of kilometres on foot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trinamool Congress MP Derek O&#8217; Brien in a tweet said, &#8220;A drop in the ocean&#8230; Migrant workers badly hit. 40 from Bengal stranded in Chennai contacted us.We reached out to @mkstalin His team met &amp; are taking care. Thx much. Under Bengal CM,migrant workers from diff States being given food\/shelter. TN-Bengal teamwork #Covid19India.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul Gandhi had earlier said, \u201cThe lockdown will devastate our poor &amp; weak. It will deliver a heavy blow to the India we love. India isn\u2019t black &amp; white. Our decisions have to be carefully thought through. A more nuanced &amp; compassionate approach is required to deal with this crisis. It\u2019s still not too late.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday appealed to people, leaders and party workers to help the migrants trying to reach their homes. He urged people to help the migrants by offering food and shelter as they are moving on foot to their homes. &#8220;Today, hundreds of our brothers and sisters, along with their hungry and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321570,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321569\/revisions\/321570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}