LUCKNOW, April 4 -- Months after facing suspicion over their citizenship, a large number of migrant workers from Assam are homebound ahead of the assembly elections scheduled there on April 9. They hope the inked finger will prove their legitimacy amid fears that failing to participate in the electoral process could lead to their names being struck off the electoral rolls and further deepen suspicion about their nationality. They constitute a significant portion of the sanitation workforce employed through private agencies under the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC). A ground visit by Hindustan Times to a slum cluster near the Haider canal sewage treatment plant, located close to the 1090 intersection, revealed that a majority of residents had already vacated their dwellings, while others were in the process of leaving. Locked shanties, packed belongings, and sparse movement indicated a temporary but large-scale migration back to their native villages in Assam. P3...