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Home / West-bengal / Calcutta / Migrant workers rush home as state government announces complete lockdown from May 16 Migrant workers rush home as state government announces complete lockdown from May 16 All of them apprehended that the restrictions would continue beyond the initial fortnight
Hundreds of migrant workers and their families rushed to bus stands across the city to head back home after the state government announced restrictions till May 30.
At the Esplanade bus terminus, a large crowd gathered from Saturday afternoon with their bags packed. Many carrying headloads were headed home to Hazaribagh in Jharkhand, Malda, Balurghat, Siliguri and Patna, among others.
Fifteen Trinamool MLAs who joined the BJP in the presence of Union home minister Amit Shah in the run-up to the assembly elections could not change its fortunes as the Trinamool swept districts such as Paschim Bardhaman, Hooghly, Howrah and Diamond Harbour, which witnessed several defections.
Trinamool was firefighting after Suvendu Adhikari stepped down as minister in Mamata Banerjee s cabinet
Kolkata:
Bengal s ruling Trinamool Congress has a third leader sounding a discordant note ahead of the Assembly elections in about four months from now. Suvendu Adhikari, the MLA from Nandigram, has already quit the cabinet. Forest minister Rajib Banerjee struck such a sour note, Trinamool general secretary Partha Chatterjee called him for talks on Sunday in presence of poll strategist Prashant Kishor. And now it was Jitender Tiwari, Trinamool MLA from Asansol and former mayor of the city that lies in the stronghold of BJP s Union Minister Babul Supriyo.