 "Migrant workers board a special train to return to Agra, during a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, at a railway station in Ahmedabad")
Several Opposition leaders, including Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, those from the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) President and MP Thirumavalvan, have written a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind expressing deep concern over the security, welfare, livelihood and future of millions of working-class Indian people.
In the letter to the President, the Opposition leaders have raised the issue of labour laws being nullified and hard-won democratic rights of a vast majority of Indians being frittered away in the name of fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. The consequences of this prolonged national lockdown were
