At borders across India hundreds of thousands of poor migrant workers are walking back to their villages. In what appears to be a complete lack of co-ordination between states, hundreds of thousands of migrants workers are leaving cities because of the lockdown and heading home. But because of the shut down in public transport there are no buses or trains to take them, so they are walking. Barkha Dutt walks a short bit of the way with Rajneesh Rajput, who says "This will kill us before the virus. No Neta ever dies, only the poor do". Rajneesh is walking 247 kms to Bareilly.
'Could Yogi not have given us a bus? Is it because we are poor? Have we been left to die?'
At borders across India hundreds of thousands of poor migrant workers are walking back to their villages. In what appears to be a complete lack of co-ordination between states, hundreds of thousands of migrants workers are leaving cities because of the lockdown and heading home. But because of the shut down in public transport there are no buses or trains to take them, so they are walking. Barkha Dutt walks a short bit of the way with Rajneesh Rajput, who says "This will kill us before the virus. No Neta ever dies, only the poor do". Rajneesh is walking 247 kms to Bareilly.
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