Hours after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced a six-day #lockdown in the national capital, hundreds of migrant workers crowded the Anand Vihar Bus Terminal to board buses for their native places.
The lockdown has been imposed from 10 am on April 19 till 5 am on April 26.

Several videos and pictures of the workers waiting for buses to return home are being shared on social media.
The scene looked similar to the one we saw last year when the nation-wide lockdown was announced in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The migrant workers were seen waiting hours at the bus stop. They later were left with no choice but to flout the COVID-19 norm of maintaining social distance.
They also claimed to be charged 10 times more than the usual fare.
“We are daily wagers, CM should have given us some time before announcing it. It takes us Rs 200 to reach home, but they’re charging Rs 3,000-4,000 now, how will we go home?”, said one of the migrant workers as reported by ANI.
Hundreds of migrant workers, including women and children, out of exhaustion were seen laying on the ground with their heads on sacks looking numbly at the hustles of the national capital.

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