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Highlights:
- Exodus started even after CM Kejriwal’s assurance
- Thousands gathered at Anand Vihar ISBT at night
- People left for villages sitting on the roofs of buses
New Delhi
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, while announcing a week-long lockdown in the capital, appealed to the diaspora not to leave Delhi but to no avail. As soon as the announcement was made, people covered the bag and got a bus or a train for their village. By Monday night, Anand Vihar was seen on ISBT, similar to last year.
By the way, Arvind Kejriwal told the migrant workers that ‘I am Na’, but even then thousands of people were seen trying to get a bus to leave their homes on Anand Vihar ISBT. According to police officials, more than 5,000 people reached the ISBT and railway station at Anand Vihar and the number is increasing.
Earlier in the day, Kejriwal had announced a lockdown during the day and appealed to outside workers living in the capital that the lockdown was expected to be small, so they should not leave Delhi.
Announcing the lockdown in the capital on Monday, 19 April from 10 am to 5 am next Monday, Kejriwal said, “I am na, trust me.”
A senior police official said that thousands of people started reaching Anand Vihar ISBT after the sudden announcement of the lockdown.
Policemen deployed in the area are also trying to convince and return people. Although migrant workers fear that the corona virus outbreak is increasing daily in Delhi, the lockdown may be increased.
Mukesh Pratap, who works in a textile factory in Dilshad Garden and a resident of Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, said he wanted to go to his house as the lockdown was expected to increase.
Last year too, migrants from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and other states working in Delhi were seen returning to their homes on buses, other vehicles and even on foot after the lockdown was announced in the country.
Photograph of Anand Vihar Terminal on Monday night.
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