Year after year: Fear and panic reign as migrants flock back home

Year after year: Fear and panic reign as migrants flock back home
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Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal while announcing the lockdown on Monday had appealed to migrants not to leave, saying it is a short-period lockdown. Not many are convinced. “First it was for two days, and now seven days. God forbid if they stop trains later.
ET Bureau
Trains and buses leaving Delhi for different places in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are running jam-packed as tens of thousands of migrant workers are once again going back to their native places on fears that the lockdown in the capital may prolong. Railway stations and interstate bus terminals in and around Delhi have been overcrowded in the past two days since a week-long lockdown till next Monday morning was announced.

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