GORAKHPUR : Lallan, a painter in the NCR city Ghaziabad, waited near a railway station for three days for his turn to get on to a Shramik special.
On the fourth day, he went to the bank, withdrew all his savings of ₹1.9 lakh and headed straight to a second hand car seller.
He bought a used car for ₹1.5 lakh, and travelled back to his home in Gorakhpur along with his family, vowing never to return.
A resident of Kaitholia village in PP Ganj in Gorakhpur, Lallan said, "After the lockdown, I stayed on hoping that things would soon return to normal.