"We have been providing food to their doorstep. Baba Siddique, the former MLA from Bandra West told NDTV, "I have appealed to them to stay where they are and we will take care of them. More than 1,400 people tested positive for coronavirus, taking the all-India figure above 10,000. Thousands of migrant workers gathered at Bandra demanding to start outstation trains & let them leave Mumbai. In a series of tweets Aaditya Thackeray, the son of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, blamed the Central government's lack of initiative to send the migrants home. The Centre has done nothing to give migrant labourers any confidence and with an expansion of the lockdown, they came out on the streets as an act of desperation," said Zeeshan Siddique, a Congress MLA from the neighbouring constituency. The police say they are still verifying the claim that a fake message was circulated.The crowd mostly comprised migrant labourers who live in the slums around Bandra station. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.Thousands Defy Lockdown At Bandra Station In Mumbai, Lathicharged By CopsTwo-Wheeler Sales July 2020: Honda Registers Drop Of 29.32 Per Cent In Year On Year SalesAndhra Pradesh Registers Record Single-Day Spike With Over 10,000 COVID CasesCOVID-19 Fatality Rate Declining Progressively, Recoveries Near 10 Lakh: Health Ministry Thousands of migrant workers who earn daily wages in Mumbai came out on #Bandra station road on Tuesday afternoon demanding transport arrangements to go back to their native places. I warn you don't play with their emotions," he said, addressing rumour-mongers.Sources told NDTV that the crowd wanted to leave Mumbai, expecting train services to resume. The administration needs to stay vigilant as such events will weaken India's fight against coronavirus, he said.Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray told the media that the people had gathered outside the station as they thought "the trains will start running and they will go home...Someone said something and hence they gathered". "Don't play with their emotions. Video footage from the area showed thousands of people jostling, giving a go by to government warnings about coronavirus and social distancing.Most demanded that they be allowed to go home. It also raised concern about further spread of the virus -- Mumbai has seen more than 1,500 cases of COVID-19, more than half of the 2,300-plus cases in Maharashtra.Union Home Minister Amit Shah had called Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to express concern and offer support. They are poor people. With no jobs, police messages that food would be delivered to them or they could shift to a camp, do not convince them. Around 1,100 people have recovered and 353 patients have died................................. Advertisement ................................Thousands Defy Lockdown At Bandra Station In Mumbai, Lathicharged By Cops © COPYRIGHT NDTV CONVERGENCE LIMITED 2020. A message to that effect was apparently making the rounds. "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… https://t.co/w7kWevgiqAThe current situation at Bandra Station, now dispersed or even the rioting in Surat is a result of the Union Govt n… https://t.co/fIw49kWo22This is Bandra, Mumbai today. They cannot leave now as all state borders are sealed."
The Congress's Sanjay Nirupam denied that food was a problem for the migrants and blamed the lockdown, which has worsened the living conditions of the workers. Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced extension of the Coronavirus lockdown till May 3, a large number of migrant workers came out to protest onto Mumbai streets. Mumbai's Bandra Station became a huge site of protest When the crowd ignored several warnings to disperse, police used batons Some came in search of …
The lockdown means they have had to stay in such cramped conditions for days. Bandra station protest: FIR against TV journalist Rahul Kulkarni An FIR has been registered against a correspondent with a Marathi news channel over his report that trains would restart, which may have prompted gathering of migrants in suburban Bandra on Tuesday, a police official said. When the crowd ignored several warnings to disperse, batons were used, the police said.The visuals -- reminiscent of the huge migrant exodus outside the inter-state bus stations in Delhi after the lockdown was declared for the first time - raised questions about how such a huge crowd gathered despite multiple containment zones in the city. They don't want food or shelter, they want to go back home," he tweeted. The police had to use their batons on the protesters to disperse themMumbai, the city with the highest cases of coronavirus, became the site of a huge protest on Tuesday as hordes of migrant workers gathered outside Mumbai's Bandra station on Tuesday protesting against the extension of the lockdown. Time and again this issue has been raised with the centre.The protest comes on a day the country witnessed a huge jump in the cases of coronavirus. @OfficeofUT has turned a blind eye to everything while @MumbaiPolice is busy drafting… https://t.co/0OfEzO6C0XThousands of migrant workers gather at Mumbai’s Bandra station seeking a way to go back homeThousands of migrant workers gather at Mumbai’s Bandra station seeking a way to go back homeLockdown extension in interest of country: AdityanathCOVID-19: Nearly 10,000 cases, 330 deaths in 21 days of lockdown; experts say it would have been worse without shutdown Most of these people live in crowded areas where 10 or more people share a room. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. A mutual road map set by Union Govt will largely help migrant labour to reach home from one state to another safely and efficiently.
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