Udupi: Desperate North Karnataka workers assured help by Raghupati Bhat
Team Udayavani, Mar 28, 2020, 4:58 PM IST
Udupi: Almost 400 migrant daily wage labourers from northern Karnataka, jobless since many days due to lockdown, were travelling to their homes but were stopped by the police from crossing the border on Friday, March 27.
On learning of their plight, MLA Raghupati Bhat assured them of help and provided them with shelter and food that would suffice them for ten days. He also assured the laborers that no one would go hungry during the lockdown.
These labourers were travelling in trucks and mini trucks and were stopped from crossing the district border near Shiroor by the police. On Friday night the police is said to have provided them with food.
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