Haryana: In Yamunanagar shelter, inmates create ruckus for buses to Bihar

YAMUNANAGAR: Hundreds of migrant labourers from Bihar protested and created ruckus at a shelter home in Radaur town of Yamunanagar district on Saturday morning, demanding arrangements for travel to their home state .


They raised slogans against the Haryana and Bihar governments and threatened to stop eating if they were not sent to their homes soon.

Sources said the labourers lost temper and became impatient at the shelter home set up at the Government Senior Secondary School in Radaur. Radaur DSP Kushal Pal Rana and local SHO Rishi Kumar reached the spot and tried to pacify the protesting labourers, but they continued with their protest for long.

A protesting migrant Ramlakhan said, “We were promised that we will be sent to our home state soon, but nothing has happened so far.”

Another migrant Akash Kumar said, “We should be allowed to leave for Bihar. We were first kept at a shelter home near Yamunanagar for 15 days and then the administration shifted us here a few days ago, instead of sending us to our home state.”

The DSP said around 1,000 migrant labourers from Bihar have been kept at four different shelter homes in Radaur. “On Saturday morning, some of them protested at the shelter home. I tried to pacify them. They have been told that arrangements are being made to send them to their home state,” he said.

A schedule of two-three trains has been received, which would be leaving towards Bihar on Sunday and the labourers would be sent in those trains, DSP Rana added.