Days after Prime Minister Modi announced a nationwide lock down to contain the coronavirus pandemic, on Saturday, 28th March, 2019 — the sudden influx of thousands of migrant workers at Anand Vihar Bus Terminal near Delhi-UP border terrified the nation’s heartland which continues to live under a constant shadow of rapid transmission of a contagion called CoVID-19.
It all started with Whatsapp forwards making way to people’s smartphones which reckoned that ‘Buses will be available from Anand Vihar Bus Terminal’ for the people wishing to leave for their native places in Uttar Pradesh. This (mis)information spread electronically like a wildfire, which authorities took hours to douse until Sunday morning. By the time people rushed to the Terminal in thousands, there were no buses scheduled to run anywhere across Uttar Pradesh. And Ghazipur, the UP bordered urban village of East Delhi where Anand Vihar Bus terminal is located, became a dangerously managed place where crowd of thousands had gathered to escape coronavirus by somehow making way towards their respective native places — by putting all social distancing norms in dizzy.
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