Bollywood’s ‘Shehenshah’ Amitabh Bachchan, on Wednesday arranged four special flights to send around 700 migrants from Mumbai, Maharashtra, to their homes in Uttar Pradesh. Two more flights with migrant workers will take off on Thursday, a source close to Big B said. Adding on he said that Big B wanted to book a train for the migrants but the logistics did not work out. The flights were organised by Big B’s close aide Rajesh Yadav, managing director of his home production company AB Corp Ltd.
The flights took off from Mumbai for Allahabad, Gorakhpur and Varanasi in UP on Wednesday morning with 180 passengers in each, the sources said. Mr Yadav, on Mr Bachchan’s behalf, had also recently flagged off 10 buses for 300 migrants to reach their villages in Lucknow, Allahabad, Bhadohi and other places in Uttar Pradesh. This was done in partnership with the Dargahs in Mahim and the Haji Ali. After landing at Allahabad airport from Mumbai in a special IndiGo flight, an overwhelmed Korawan village native Ghulam Hassan thanked Big B for helping him reach his home safely, in a flight free of cost.
