New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Sunday flagged the plight of locomotive pilots and said the INDIA bloc will raise its voice in Parliament to improve their rights and working conditions.
Gandhi's comments on X came as he posted a video of his recent interaction with locomotive pilots at the New Delhi railway station.
"In the Narendra Modi government, the train of life of locomotive pilots has been completely derailed," the former Congress chief said.
He said locomotive pilots are forced to work 16 hours a day sitting in scalding hot cabins.
"People on whom millions of lives depend have no confidence in their own lives. Deprived of even basic facilities like urinals, locomotive pilots have no limit on working hours and are also not given leave, so they are physically and mentally devastated. . and they are getting sick," Gandhi said in his Hindi post.
In such a situation, making locomotive pilots drive trains puts their lives and those of passengers at risk, he said.
The Indian National Alliance for Inclusive Development (INDIA) will raise its voice in Parliament to improve the rights and working conditions of locomotive pilots, Gandhi said.
"Seeing this little argument, you can also feel their pain," Gandhi said while sharing the video of the interaction.
In the video, the locomotive pilots complain to Gandhi about the lack of rest, leave and "inhumane working conditions."
On Saturday, the southern zone president of the Locomotive Staff Association of India had the locomotive conductors hand over a memorandum to Gandhi, blaming poor working conditions for the recent train accidents.
R Kumaresan, who played a crucial role in organizing the interaction between the former Congress president and the locomotive pilots at the New Delhi railway station on Friday, said they wanted to draw Gandhi's attention to the "serious problems of safety" faced by drivers and passengers on the Railways.
The train drivers' unions have also refuted Railways' claim that Gandhi met locomotive pilots who were not from the Delhi Division and were brought in from abroad.
On Friday, after Gandhi visited the locomotive pilot crew's lobby at the New Delhi railway station, the public relations director of the Northern Railway, under which the Delhi Division falls, said it seemed that Gandhi met to locomotive pilots who were not from the crew lobby. from the New Delhi railway station.
Gandhi met a group of locomotive pilots on Friday, who complained of "insufficient rest due to lack of staff."
Gandhi had assured them that he would raise their issues in Parliament.
He had met about 50 locomotive pilots from across India at the New Delhi railway station and they explained his problems, party sources said.
The locomotive pilots mainly complained about insufficient rest.
Gandhi's comments on X came as he posted a video of his recent interaction with locomotive pilots at the New Delhi railway station.
"In the Narendra Modi government, the train of life of locomotive pilots has been completely derailed," the former Congress chief said.
He said locomotive pilots are forced to work 16 hours a day sitting in scalding hot cabins.
"People on whom millions of lives depend have no confidence in their own lives. Deprived of even basic facilities like urinals, locomotive pilots have no limit on working hours and are also not given leave, so they are physically and mentally devastated. . and they are getting sick," Gandhi said in his Hindi post.
In such a situation, making locomotive pilots drive trains puts their lives and those of passengers at risk, he said.
The Indian National Alliance for Inclusive Development (INDIA) will raise its voice in Parliament to improve the rights and working conditions of locomotive pilots, Gandhi said.
"Seeing this little argument, you can also feel their pain," Gandhi said while sharing the video of the interaction.
In the video, the locomotive pilots complain to Gandhi about the lack of rest, leave and "inhumane working conditions."
On Saturday, the southern zone president of the Locomotive Staff Association of India had the locomotive conductors hand over a memorandum to Gandhi, blaming poor working conditions for the recent train accidents.
R Kumaresan, who played a crucial role in organizing the interaction between the former Congress president and the locomotive pilots at the New Delhi railway station on Friday, said they wanted to draw Gandhi's attention to the "serious problems of safety" faced by drivers and passengers on the Railways.
The train drivers' unions have also refuted Railways' claim that Gandhi met locomotive pilots who were not from the Delhi Division and were brought in from abroad.
On Friday, after Gandhi visited the locomotive pilot crew's lobby at the New Delhi railway station, the public relations director of the Northern Railway, under which the Delhi Division falls, said it seemed that Gandhi met to locomotive pilots who were not from the crew lobby. from the New Delhi railway station.
Gandhi met a group of locomotive pilots on Friday, who complained of "insufficient rest due to lack of staff."
Gandhi had assured them that he would raise their issues in Parliament.
He had met about 50 locomotive pilots from across India at the New Delhi railway station and they explained his problems, party sources said.
The locomotive pilots mainly complained about insufficient rest.
