Mumbai's Bandra West railway station was flooded with migrant labourers who were hoping to get back home as they expected the lockdown to end on Tuesday.
The visuals from the Bandra station show a massive crowd gathered. The police had to resort to lathi-charge to disperse the crowd.
The people gathered at the station are mostly daily wage labourers who are not able to earn since the government imposed a nationwide lockdown on March 25. Earlier, the lockdown was supposed to end on April 14, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday declared that the lockdown has been extended till May 3.
The migrants started congregating outside Bandra bus depot from 4 pm in a large number. The local residents estimated that there were around 3,000 migrants gathered at the place. “They demanded to run train to UP and Bihar so that they can go back to their native places,” said BJP MLA Ashish Shelar, who was at the spot.
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