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Are India’s migrant workers beasts of burden owned by industrialists? Karnataka seems to think so -Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

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The migrant exodus will undoubtedly hurt the economy. But that is no excuse for forced labour.

The Indian government’s policies towards its vulnerable migrant worker population were already a mess. This week, Karnataka made it worse.

The Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled state decided to cancel trains that would allow working-class people from other states to return to their homes five weeks after a national lockdown to combat Covid-19 left them stranded, often without adequate facilities or supplies.

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