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Demanding to be sent back, hundreds of workers stage protest in Hyderabad

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HYDERABAD: About 1,000 migrant workers and labours, mostly from north India, protested at Toli Chowki in Hyderabad on Sunday, demanding that they be sent back home, as their survival has become difficult without an income amid the nationwide lockdown imposed in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic.

Even though the police arrived quickly at the scene of the protest, it was initially unable to control the protestors from working.

The police addressed them after settling them down. “Some of them are seasonal workers, while others were migrants who settled here in Hyderabad some years ago.

Though the state government gave migrants ₹500 and also rice to eat, getting by each day is proving to be difficult for them, hence they protested," said an

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