Tuesday 10 January 2012

Ruthless rulers freeze the helpless to death


In North India, the winters are very severe, poor homeless people have no where to go; their march towards the city was made so that they can get jobs which government had never provided for its people. Homeless people are dying in cold each night. Every morning a worker from the JP hospital in New Delhi finds the bodies of the dead who did not survive the coldness of the night. Of the survivors of cold nights, many hurdle in pavements waiting for the night to end and the sun to rise and give warmth.
 Hitler had committed crimes against humanity by killing many while conducting experiments while testing the limits of extremes that human body can take--in Winter freezing Jews to death. In India the ruling elite kill people without creating jobs, without effective food schemes, without proper shelters for the poor without access to basic needs. Here the experiments are not noted down in details as Hitler had. Hitler was a single man committing crimes against humanity, but here the whole political system ignores the needs of the poor people and allows them to die in the streets. Killing people or allowing people to freeze to death by not providing basic needs are both murders.
In rural India, workers without homes, seek temples, ghats or chaupals where they may shelter for the cold nights. Without proper food and blankets they do not stand a chance to survive terribly cold Winters here.Where will the poor people--laborers, farm hands go?This is a way of eliminating the very very poor who form the bottom layer of pyramid of economy.
Migrant labourers are given no shelter to live nor even allowed to make tents in Delhi. The few shelters that are here are hell holes of crime. Some homeless were able to find shelters or ‘rain basera’ where they were robbed of the little money they had. Many have ended up in the streets because they had been robbed of their earnings and pushed out for not paying rent. Some who had been working as tailors or as labour carting commodities as coolies have lost their jobs and have been robbed within these shelters. In these homes young boys were assaulted by destitute men. Women are pounced upon by other men in the shelters. Homeless were hurt more in these shelters and they are willing to brave the cold. If they had complained, the police had taken no action as they only cared for rich people. Poor have no rights in India.
In this freezing cold, stone elephants and statues were covered with sheets as per government's orders to block election symbols. Crores of Ruppees were spent on covering the stones;and these sheets could have been used to make tents for the homeless. Indian leaders have failed their own people and froze the helpless homeless poors. 

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