Coronavirus: ‘Why has Modi done this?’

[BHarwana]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1242511536729600001

Rajasthan workers walk back home from Gujarat
While younger daily-wage earners were able to make the journey, the more elderly are stranded far from home with no work.
Vijayta Lalwani
3 hours ago

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A migrant worker and his children in Ahmedabad look for transport to return to his village after the lockdown. .. | Amit Dave/Reuters


On Tuesday evening, Dashrath Yadav sat at a bus stop in Ahmedabad, listening keenly to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation. The 32-year-old daily-wage earner gathered that there was to be 21-day nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19, the strain of coronavirus that has claimed 10 lives in India. But he was still trying to make sense of what it meant for him.

Around 8.30 pm that day, Yadav received a message on WhatsApp saying movement across the country would be heavily restricted and that citizens had to stay inside their homes. But home for him was nearly 240 kilometres away, in Rajasthan’s Banswara district.

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He had already been anxious. By March 23, Gujarat as well as most other states and Union Territories were already under lockdown. Gujarat had suspended public transport. Determined to reach home, Yadav decided to travel with a group of 12 that set out for Rajasthan on foot that day.

“We walked the whole night,” he said. “We did not carry water. We did not have food and we barely stopped for a few minutes to rest. Someone’s feet got swollen, another person fainted.”

Walking from Gujarat to Rajasthan, Yadav says, he saw around thousands, including women and children, making their way home. “I saw four people on a bike, three people on a cycle, a one-year-old child and a woman who had just delivered a baby,” he said.

The flow of migrants between Gujarat and Rajasthan has increased over the past week, said Santosh Puniya of Aajeevika Bureau, a Rajasthan-based non-profit that works with migrant communities


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[aryadravida]

lockdown is imposed so that people stay put where they are...ignorant fellows are trying to cross states...govt will provide them food....they should not do such idiotic things like travelling....besides for such shutdowns will not be given any prior notice as people may throng to buses and trains which increase the risk of spreading...well done modi.

 

[Raj-Hindustani]

lockdown is imposed so that people stay put where they are...ignorant fellows are trying to cross states...govt will provide them food....they should not do such idiotic things like travelling....besides for such shutdowns will not be given any prior notice as people may throng to buses and trains which increase the risk of spreading...well done modi.

Absolutely correct... Latest example of Pakistani trains... And crowds.

 

[GumNaam]

lockdown is imposed so that people stay put where they are...ignorant fellows are trying to cross states...govt will provide them food....they should not do such idiotic things like travelling....besides for such shutdowns will not be given any prior notice as people may throng to buses and trains which increase the risk of spreading...well done modi.

a government that can't even feel its own soldiers will provide 1.3 billion people in lockdown with food. yeah, sure...

 

[Diggy]

Compare pak CoVid count with that of India you will know why he took these steps

 

[padamchen]

I am with our Prime Minister on this 500%.

Sir you are our leader. We are with you.

This is war.

 

[Raj-Hindustani]

Compare pak CoVid count with that of India you will know why he took these steps

Imran khan is failed as of now to take any decision.. Looks very weak PM.

Sindh government and CM is doing better to fight against corona virus.. Even he (imran) does not know different between curfew and lockdown then nothing to say..

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

should let them go back to their villages, where many live their whole life 100m around their huts. things are more containable this way.

big crowded cities with poor health infrastructure only spell disaster.

India should improvise. a Wuhan style lockdown may not be the best approach.

 

[Diggy]

Imran khan is failed as of now to take any decision.. Looks very weak PM.

Sindh government and CM is doing better to fight against corona virus.. Even he (imran) does not know different between curfew and lockdown then nothing to say..

he was always weak man, he gets directions from Army, they say that in their TV debates also.

 

[GumNaam]

Imran khan is failed as of now to take any decision.. Looks very weak PM.

Sindh government and CM is doing better to fight against corona virus.. Even he (imran) does not know different between curfew and lockdown then nothing to say..

when will you creatures start learning to sort your own dayum house I'm order...don't worry about our PM Imran Khan or the cm of sindh...you have a leadership right now that is playing the "one day maatram" violin as india burns! Our PM cares about the people and motivates them to work with him unlike that old geezer graying monkey who gave all you idiots merely 4 hours before curfew while completely disregarding the fact that the vast majority of indians have to live on daily wages & there too, they can't even afford a rs. 5 parlay's biscuits for their children.

apni napphayrr tu!

 

[kaykay]

When all these ends, we will access who did what and who didn't. Till then keep fighting and stay indoors.

 

[masterchief_mirza]

Compare pak CoVid count with that of India you will know why he took these steps

Big assumption is of course that India has identified all or at least most of its positive cases....

Hint: it hasn't.

Anyways good luck. I don't think the criticism is of lockdown down per se, but rather of these poor sods walking around with 1 year old kids and nowhere to go. Modi clearly hit the panic button late and left these people no time to flee.

 

[padamchen]

Big assumption is of course that India has identified all or at least most of its positive cases....

Hint: it hasn't.

Anyways good luck. I don't think the criticism is of lockdown down per se, but rather of these poor sods walking around with 1 year old kids and nowhere to go. Modi clearly hit the panic button late and left these people no time to flee.

So are you suggesting that because he left it late, we should have delayed the lockdown?

How many days?

A week?

 

[pikkuboss]

should let them go back to their villages, where many live their whole life 100m around their huts. things are more containable this way.

big crowded cities with poor health infrastructure only spell disaster.

India should improvise. a Wuhan style lockdown may not be the best approach.

The people walking on the street are young and hardworking, probably immune to the virus but the people they are going to meet at the end of their journey are their old parents and children in the villages. Cities are in lockdown still people there are not starving, will soon get access to home delivery of essential commodities and medicine. There is a dedicated care to serve to the people, better hospitals but villages don't have better access to all these conveniences. If community spreading in villages are reported, the little freedom the village people are enjoying from this lockdown will also be taken away. That will create bigger problem. Better option for government is to provide shelter and necessities to these people and I am sure the government is working towards this step.

 

[Valar.]

I just for the sake of curiousity and to kill time clicked on this thread. Didn't read a word of OP. But the picture got my attention.

A labour guy with a smartphone and two kids of the similar age.

Why did the guy went for 2 kids instead of 1 or no kids for the time being when he is already not financially stable?

Why buy a smartphone and not some dirt cheap second hand bike?