LUCKNOW : The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday accepted the Congress offer to run 1,000 buses to bring migrant labourers back to the state, a proposal which had triggered a war of words between the two sides.
The state government asked Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who had made the offer, to provide it with a list of buses along with the names of their drivers and conductors.
The Congress leader had recently written to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, seeking permission to run 1,000 buses at her party’s expense.
The party had then accused the BJP-run UP government of ignoring the offer. "The offer made to the chief minister through the letter on May 16 in connection with migrant labourers has been