India, May 10 -- A Noida resident has shared a viral post on what he described as a "post-Bengal-election crisis" unfolding inside his housing society, where domestic workers have banded together to collectively demand a wage raise.

X user Vikrant Kumar explained that a large number of domestic workers in his residential society, who are originally from Bengal, temporarily left for their home state to participate in voting.

Their departure, he wrote, triggered an unexpected labour shortage in the society.

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With demand suddenly outstripping supply, remaining domestic workers from other parts of the country like Utta...