As the 21-day lockdown was expected to end today and the migrants were eagerly waiting to go back home after the end of the lockdown. Today morning PM Modi announced the extension of lockdown period till May 3.
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After waiting for a long period of time the Bandra station was flooded with migrants. Thousands of migrants flocked west Bandra station.
The people gathered were mostly daily wage workers who were desperately waiting to get back home.
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The state home minister said:
“Mumbai has the largest number of migrant labourers, they had assumed that since today is 14th they will get a chance to get back home. We are glad that state borders have not been opened as if these people had gone back to their home they would have taken the disease with them to their villages,”
The union govt was blamed for this situation:
Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray claimed that the Bandra station was incapable of controlling the crowd.
Aditya Thackeray said:
“The current situation at Bandra Station, now dispersed or even the rioting in Surat is a result of the Union Govt not being able to take a call on arranging a way back home for migrant labour. They don’t want food or shelter, they want to go back home,”
Priyanka Chaturvedi, Party spokesperson gave the statement on social media in which she said:
“The Union government must realise that migrant workers have largely cooperated in the past three weeks but there is impatience, urge central government besides looking at this crisis from health and economy perspective please consider the humanitarian and social side too. Happened in Surat and now in Mumbai,”
The cops lathi charged on the migrants after they refuse to follow the govt orders.
Negligence like this could cost a lot when the world is fighting with coronavirus.