Hundreds of migrant workers belonging to northern states on Friday staged a protest in front of the central railway station here demanding that arrangements be made for them to return to home towns.
The crowding of workers at the railway station is learnt to be prompted by a social media post which went viral giving false information that free special trains have been arranged for workers, sources said.
More than 700 workers residing at Surathkal, Nanthoor, Kulur and Derebail near here reached the station by foot.
Some of them held placards reading "we want to go home."