Priyanka Gandhi Vadra announces ‘Nadi Adhikar Yatra’ for UP fishermen

A day after Congress Common Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra visited Prayagraj to satisfy fishermen whose boats have been allegedly broken by the police, she on Tuesday introduced that the social gathering will take out a “Nadi Adhikar Yatra” in help of the neighborhood’s trigger.

She additionally introduced a sum of Rs 10 lakh to the affected fishermen whose boats have been broken.

In a sequence of tweets in Hindi, she mentioned that the rights of river assets are of the fishermen neighborhood and the Congress can be taking out a Yatra to struggle for the rights.

She demanded that the federal government examine the unlawful sand mining and the mining being achieved by massive firms. She additionally has sought a white paper from the federal government detailing the river the place mining was being achieved.

Earlier on Sunday, the Congress Common Secretary visited Prayagraj to help the boatmen who have been allegedly harassed by the native police. She was knowledgeable by a boatman named Sujit Nishad in regards to the points that the boatmen belonging to the Nishad neighborhood have been dealing with, together with brutality towards them, by police whom he alleged had destroyed their boats.

Nishad is likely one of the largest communities of OBCs after Yadavs, Maurya and Kurmi in Uttar Pradesh and have been with Samajwadi Occasion and the Bahujan Samaj Occasion. The BJP and the Congress, each are eyeing to make inroads and impress help from the neighborhood mentioned sources.

–IANS

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