GORAKHPUR : This was one rail trip Vijay Kumar says he will never forget. Nor will the 1,398 other passengers on the Shramik Special from Maharashtra's Vasai Road that rolled into platform number 9 here, taking two and half days for the journey that was supposed to be just 25 hours. “Our train was moving in all the wrong directions and went to Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal and Odisha.
All the stations were new and I thought I was part of some adventure movie," Vijay Kumar told PTI. Another passenger, Suraj Gupta from of Sahjanwa in Gorakhpur, described it as a “horror journey".
At one time, Vijay Kumar thought he will never make it to his village in Siddharthnagar, where the family was returning due to the lockdown against coronavirus. “I