Migrant workers gather in hundreds in Mumbai, say they want to go home

Daily wage workers have been left without jobs ever since the lockdown was announced late last month to stem the spread of COVID-19, making their life an unending struggle

Defying the lockdown, more than 1,000 migrant workers who earn daily wages gathered in Mumbai on Tuesday demanding transport arrangements to go back to their native places, hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended the coronavirus-enforced curbs till May 3.

The gathering in suburban Bandra, in violation of lockdown norms, created a potential law and order situation for an overstretched police force and the men in uniform resorted to mild force to scatter the crowd.

A police official said the migrants, who assembled around 3 pm, were dispersed two hours later and have been assured accommodation and food till the