In a recent, third time within a month, migrant labourers in Surat went on rampage demanding that they should be allowed to return their natives.
This morning at Diamond Bourse migrants went berserk damaging glass windows & doors at construction site in order to demand their return back to natives.
Third time within a month, migrant labourers in Surat went on rampage demanding that they should be allowed to return their natives. Today morning at Diamond Bourse migrants went berserk damaging glass windows & doors at construction site @the_hindu pic.twitter.com/3QKe2dLtwi
— Mahesh Langa (@LangaMahesh) April 28, 2020
As the crowd turned violent, the authorities called the police to control the situation. On reaching the site, the police tried to appeal to the migrants to remain calm.
Although this is not the first time such incident has taken place, in a similar incident in Dindoli of Surat, hundreds of migrants labourers protested on the railway tracks, demanding that they be allowed to go to their villages in their States. Stones were thrown at policemen who tried to push the protesters into their homes, asking them to stay indoors.Ever since the lockdown was announced, Surat, a hub of migrants with more than a million labourers coming from over a dozen States from across the country, has been witnessing incidents of migrants turning violent as authorities are trying to keep them from leaving for their natives.
Migrant workers in Surat resort to violence, torch vehicles fearing lockdown extension
