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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | ‘Sarkar is Only for the Rich, the Poor Are Meant to Die’ -Ajaz Ashraf

‘Sarkar is Only for the Rich, the Poor Are Meant to Die’ -Ajaz Ashraf

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published Published on May 13, 2020   modified Modified on May 14, 2020

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Meet Siya Ram, president of Dalit Ekta Camp, a JJ cluster in Delhi’s Vasant Kunj colony, an upwardly-mobile residential neighbourhood.

The Modi government’s decision to impose a national lockdown, on since 24 March, to check the spread of the Novel Coronavirus has caused tremendous hardship to the poor. Its most lamentable symbol has been the sight of lakhs of migrants fleeing cities to villages, walking or cycling down the highway or hitching rides on trucks. Was the lockdown the best possible strategy to counter the Coronavirus? To answer this question, Indian media has interviewed, over the last 50 days, several economists and development experts, who have bitterly differed from each other.

NewsClick spoke to a representative of those whom the lockdown has hit the most. Meet Siya Ram, president of Dalit Ekta Camp, a JJ cluster in Delhi’s Vasant Kunj colony, an upwardly-mobile residential neighbourhood. The camp comprises 550 jhuggis and houses 4,000 people, almost equally of Hindus and Muslims. The residents of this camp migrated to Delhi over several years, in search of work and a better standard of living. In this extensive interview, Siya Ram articulates the view of the world during this lockdown, seen from the prism of a jhuggi-jhopri.

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Newsclick.in, 13 May, 2020, https://www.newsclick.in/Sarkar-Only-for-Rich-Poor-Meant-to-Die-COVID?fbclid=IwAR0kBBPTZu5yXLvexdV445tKDeDrOkLGnihfb-KY520uNW6y_CdFOtu4cU8


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