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Lockdown 3.0: Migrant workers clash again in Surat, demand to be sent home

The workers have been demanding that trains should be arranged to ferry them to their native places as the government extended the nationwide lockdown till May 17

Migrant workers gather outside Bandra West Railway Station as they defy lockdown norms and request to leave for their native places after Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced the extension of nationwide lockdown till May 3. Photo: PTI
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The clashes come a week after workers protested and pelted stones at the Diamond Bourse office in Surat. Representative Image

BS Web Team New Delhi
Clashes broke out between migrants workers protesting to be sent home and the police in Gujarat's Surat on Monday. According to reports, police had to resort to lathicharge to control the agitating crowd. 

The workers have been demanding that trains should be arranged to ferry them to their homes in other states as the government extended the nationwide lockdown till May 17. 

The clashes come a week after workers protested and pelted stones at the Diamond Bourse office in Surat on April 28, alleging that they were being made to work amid the ongoing coronavirus lockdown. Police reached the spot

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