Hundreds of migrant workers on Thursday staged a protest in Sendhwa town on the Madhya Pradesh-Maharashtra border, demanding food and trans...
Hundreds of migrant workers on Thursday staged a protest in Sendhwa town on the Madhya Pradesh-Maharashtra border, demanding food and transport arrangements to go back home, PTI reported. The town is an important stopping point for migrant labourers going to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh from Maharashtra.
Eyewitnesses told the news agency that the migrant workers threw stones at the police personnel deployed at the spot. A labourer said that the group of migrants, which included pregnant women, children and old people, was not even provided food and water. He said that they kept waiting for transport at the border for hours.
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“People here are travelling with month-old babies,” Sailesh Tripathi, a resident of Madhya Pradesh, who works in Pune told NDTV. “The Maharashtra government sent us till here, but the Madhya Pradesh government is extending no help to us. We have been here since last night, hungry and thirsty.”
District Collector Amit Tomar said the migrant workers resorted to stone-pelting because they believed that there would be no more buses to take them home. He added that the officials pacified them...
