On March 24, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared a 21-day nationwide lockdown, barring essential services, to contain coronavirus. As a result, lakhs of migrant labours across India began walking hundreds of miles to their villages due to lack of transportation. Some of the early reports were published by The Caravan, The Wire, …

Viral audio clip blaming Kejriwal for exodus of migrants workers falsely attributed to Harish Salve - Alt News

On March 24, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared a 21-day nationwide lockdown, barring essential services, to contain coronavirus. As a result, lakhs of migrant labours across India began walking hundreds of miles to their villages due to lack of transportation. Recently, a 4-minute audio clip attributed to senior Supreme Court advocate Harish Salve is floating online. The transcript of the viral audio reads, “Don’t you have shame in giving an impression, in which you are appealing to the people, not to leave Delhi. And the most criminal acts of yours, which is unpardonable – w hy didn’t your government allow DTC buses to ply under lockdown? The Modi government had an effective plan to save the nation from disaster, but you tried spoiling everything, you anarchist! You see that UP government organised buses to take fleeing people home, but my first question to you Kejriwal is who spread the rumours to cause this panic? Fact-check Alt News reached out Harish Salve via email to verify if the audio clip is genuine or not. However, on March 18, The Polis Project , a non-profit research and journalism organisation, updated a documenting the individuals who died during the targeted violence in North East Delhi between February 23 to 29. Donate to Alt News!Independent journalism that speaks truth to power and is free of corporate and political control is possible only when people start contributing towards the same.

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