Bengaluru: Thousands of migrant workers staged a protest in Bengaluru, demanding the authorities to send them to their native village, on Monday evening.
Scores of migrant workers are stranded across the nation at various places after the lockdown was announced by the Prime Minister on March 25.
Though Karnataka government made facilities to send the migrant workers back to their native places over the last few days, thousands of migrant workers, especially from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh gathered near an international exhibition centre in Bengaluru on Monday evening and staged a stir and also blocked Bengaluru-Tumakuru highway.
A policeman was injured in the milee.
The highway was opened only after Revenue Minister R Ashok and Bengaluru Commissioner of Police Bhaskar Rao reached te spot and assured the migrant workers that they will be sent back to their homes at the earliest.
It all started with the migrant workers reaching Freedom Park in the morning to catch the transport to their state.
However, when they missed the transport and the BBMP made arrangements to sent then near BIEC to give them accommodation, the raged workers protested demanding that they should be sent back home at the earliest.
Thousands of migrant workers have already been ferried back to their villages in state-run KSRTC buses and in special trains.
The CM has also extended this service till Thursday for the convenience of the migrant workers.
