This is the third incident of protest amid lockdown in less than a month by hundreds of migrant labourers in Surat city in Gujarat.
Gujarat: Amid national lockdown to combat COVID-19, labourers protested and pelted stones at the office of Diamond Bourse in Surat, claiming that they were made to work.
Workers also demanded that to be sent back to their native places.
Gujarat: Labourers protested and pelted stones at the office of Diamond Bourse in Surat, alleging that they were made to work amid #CoronavirusLockdown. Workers also demanded that they be sent back to their native places. pic.twitter.com/RmOVZaRumZ
— ANI (@ANI) April 28, 2020
Third time within a month, migrant labourers in Surat went on rampage demanding that they should be allowed to return their natives. Today morning at Diamond Bourse migrants went berserk damaging glass windows & doors at construction site @the_hindu pic.twitter.com/3QKe2dLtwi
— Mahesh Langa (@LangaMahesh) April 28, 2020
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As per reports, the workers are from various states such as Rajasthan, Odisha, UP and Bihar.
Earlier, in an incident, locals had hurled stones at the police in Surat for implementing the lockdown in the city. Locals reportedly got upset when a police van reached Dindoli area to enforce the lockdown.
Gujarat, with 3548 cases of highly infectious coronavirus, is second highest in the country
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