Why assam people leaving bangalore

But since that ran out six weeks ago weeks ago, they have been struggling to make ends meet. Gyms, spas, restaurants and malls were a part of the worst hit sectors due to the lockdown—many of them shuttered down even prior to 24 March and are expected to be among the last to resume operations when the restrictions are eased.

Several migrants from northeast India whom I spoke to worked in these sectors in mainland India. Migrants from these states often work in precarious conditions and are dependent on their employers, who often control their food supply too.

Many a times, they have to live in accommodation owned or rented by their employers as well. This has led to several cases of employers abusing, starving or evicting employees who hail from northeast India. With very little support from the governments of their host and home states, they were left with little access to money or food during the lockdown, and also struggled to return home.

But fresh violence flared in previously calm areas of the hill state of Assam on Thursday, with a mob of hundreds of people burning a bus and a bridge, apparently in retaliation for a similar attack on a car, officials said.

Police opened fire to disperse another mob and one person was injured. Analysts have accused political parties and religious organisations of exploiting ethnic tension for their ends.

The Hindu nationalist opposition Bharatiya Janata Party BJP , which has in the past been accused of fomenting Hindu-Muslim violence, blames the Assam riots on uncontrolled immigration into the state from Muslim-majority Bangladesh.

It says the Congress party, which leads a ruling coalition, allows immigration to win votes from new arrivals. Top News Updated. While thousands of migrants, including people from Tripura and West Bengal, waited for hours, there was no government official in sight.

City police personnel and local volunteers scrambled to control the surging crowds. The crowd has to make do with just two mobile toilets installed at the grounds. With volunteers and social activists repeatedly reaching out to officials, a BBMP team including senior officials finally arrived around Around 2pm, much to the relief of the potential passengers, BBMP officials began serving food and distributing water bottles.

More mobile toilets were set up and registrations began for those who had registered on Seva Sindhu portal. SWR obliged and a second train was commissioned. Those who could not get a seat, had no choice but to return to their homes in the city.

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