New Delhi got a makeover for the G20 summit. The city's poor say they were simply erased - eviltoast
New Delhi has gotten a makeover ahead of this week’s summit of the Group of 20 nations. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government hopes the effort, with a $120 million price tag, will help showcase the world’s most populous nation’s cultural prowess and strengthen its position on the global stage.
  • xuxebiko@kbin.social
    20·
    1 year ago

    Empathy is not hatred. Lacking empathy is apathy. Why are you apathetic to the have-nots whose lives have been shattered just to paint a pretty picture for a 3-day event?

    At least 25 shantytowns and multiple night shelters for the homeless were razed to the ground and turned into parks, the report said, adding that the government failed to provide alternative shelters or places for the newly homeless.

    This is a failure of the govt and the admin to follow the law and provide alternative shelters for the people made homeless.

    Do you prettify your house for guests by kicking out family members and stopping daily-wage family members from earning their living?

    Some routes being blocked is not the same as shutting down the capital city of a country. Shutting down the city genuinely distresses people.

    Devi, whose home was demolished in one of the drives, said authorities refused to consider documents she showed as proof that her family had lived in the same house for nearly 100 years.

    “Everyone is behaving as if they are blind,” Devi said. “In the name of the G20 event, the farmers, workers and the poor are suffering.”

    Neither Modi nor his bhakts care a jot for the people of India.

    • _lemmy_07@lemmy.worldEnglish
      110·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think you have lived in Delhi or even visited the city. It’s easy to quote from articles and btw it’s called hate when you make comments like this when obviously you have not done any research on the matter and last line of your comments just proves my point.

      • xuxebiko@kbin.social
        12·
        1 year ago

        I live in Delhi, the research I’ve done about this shutdown is from right outside my doorstep… Do you know that all online deliveries, excluding medical, will be banned for the duration? that means gigworkers, whose families depend on their daily earnings, will lose out on their wages? and Delhi’s eateries and restaurants will also be shutdown?

        Why should any bhakt know? They only know modi-modi-modi.

        We’ve seen how much Modi “cares” about Indians from his inactions on Manipur which is in a ethnic & communal genocial civll war since May 3. Kukis have been ethnically cleansed from Imphal Valley. Bhakts dont give a toss about that. They only know modi-modi-modi.