New Delhi: Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan has termed ‘fake’ the reports in a section of media that Union textile minister Smriti Zubin Irani had extended help to a group of migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi, her constituency, who have been stuck in Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s parliamentary constituency, Wayanad, during the lockdown.In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Irani had defeated the then-Congress president from Amethi, considered to be a stronghold of the Gandhi family. Rahul had also successfully contested from Wayanad.The April 6 report was carried in the RSS mouthpiece Organiser too. It said, “The plight of the migrant workers came to light after two of them sought the help of their friends in Amethi.” On getting to know of it, Irani’s office, the report claimed, “coordinated with the external affairs minister Muralidheeran’s office and the Kerala unit of Sewa Bharti (an RSS wing) on March 30.”“On the same day Sewa Bharti reached out to labourers and ensured them an uninterrupted supply of foods,” the report claimsThe report also said the minister’s office had handed over a list of 15 people to the office of Muraleedharan, who hails from Kerala. “Both the ministries coordinated with the Sewa Bharti state leadership to reach out to the stranded people”.However, on April 8, the Kerala CM reportedly said it was unfair to make fake claims with regard to COVID-19 relief measures.A Deccan Herald report said that the chief minister clarified that 41 migrants were staying at a quarter of an individual at Karuvarakundu in Malappuram district, which comes under the Wayanad parliamentary constituency. “Though the food was earlier offered to them from the nearby community kitchen, the migrants and their employer said they themselves would make food. Hence, 25 kits containing essential commodities were supplied by the government officials,” the newspaper report said.It must be pointed out that though the news was circulated on social media, neither Irani nor her office made this claim through officially.This week, in the Centre’s submission of a list to the Supreme Court on active relief camps and shelters set up by the states – in response to a petition on the plight of the migrant workers due to the 21-day lockdown – Kerala tops with 15,541 such facilities. While, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, which had hit the national headlines for their inability to handle the migrant crisis during the lockdown, have set up only 2,230 and 102 such facilities respectively.