Sea of migrants keen to return home gather outside Mumbai’s Bandra station

A large number of migrant labourers came out on road in Mumbai’s Bandra Tuesday demanding transportation arrangements to go to their native places. (Express photo: Zoya Lobo)

Additional CP Manoj Kumar Sharma, west region, said many refused the ration, demanding instead that arrangements be made for them to return home. (Express photo: Zoya Lobo)

The crowd was later dispersed following the deployment of extra force to contain the situation. (Express photo: Zoya Lobo)

Taking stock of the situation, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray appealed to migrants to stay where they are. In pic: Sandals of labourers lay scattered outside Bandra station after they gathered to demand transportation to their homes. (Express photo: Zoya Lobo)

Mumbai police cops being sanitised after dispersing thousands of thousands of labourers who had gathered at suburban Bandra (West) bus depot near the railway station demanding ration. (Express photo: Prashant Nadkar)

Mumbai Police deployed drones to track lockdown violators after housands of labourers violated lockdown to demand return to their native places. (Express photo by Prashant Nadkar)

Mumbai Police cop stands guard on the skywalk after thousands of labourers gathered at suburban Bandra (West) bus depot near the railway station demanding ration.(Express photo: Prashant Nadkar)

Meanwhile, environment minister Aaditya Thackeray sought accountability from the Centre on the issue of stranded labourers, who are rendered unemployed and homeless in the wake of the coronavirus lockdown. In pic: People look out of window from a shanty after thousands of labourers were dispersed by Mumbai Police Tuesday. (Express photo: Prashant Nadkar)