An Open Letter to Prime Minister
Thursday - May 21, 2020 11:08 am ,
Category : WTN SPECIAL
Plight of thousands of migrants during lockdown
By Megha Vijaywargia
By Megha Vijaywargia
Dear Prime Minister of India,
After much consternation, I, Ramendra Pasi, a native of Memari village in West Bengal and an industrial worker in Mumbai, on the behalf of my other fellow workers and villagers who are suffering the same fate, mustered up the courage to write to you.
We don’t know who else to tell our plight. We are on the road, walking from Mumbai to Bengal for the last seven days.
The blistering heat is killing us; we have got sores and our feet are bleeding. We are hungry most of the time. We don’t know who is responsible.
We don’t know which government to blame. But no one is taking heed of our condition. Our mill owners have ditched us.
Many of us have been laid off, and many have been asked to return after six months. What will we do for the six months?
Our future is as bleak as our present. You know many of us have died walking. The exhaustion is unbearable in 42 degrees under the sun.
Many more of us will lose their lives by the time we reach home. We have children and families with us. Had it not been for common citizens who are providing us food and medicines on the roads, the misery would have been much worse.
But they are few and far between and the road seems endless. Please do something for us. Please urgently arrange vehicles for us. We are ready to pay from whatever we have saved. But drop us home.
Ask your chief ministers to help us out at this time of crisis. I am close to my home but our CM has reportedly decided not to allow us in for the fear of corona.
We are stuck in no man’s land on the Bihar-Bengal border at the mercy of commoners. If things don’t move in a couple of days, hundreds of us will simply perish. It is a question of life and death.
Now we have only you to look up to. I am writing to you with high hopes because only you can save us from the torture and the uncertainty.
Herein lies the hopes of thousands of migrants like us. It is a collective cry for help.
Please, sir, take out some time for us and order your men to save our lives. Generations of our men, women and children will remember you with gratitude.
Regards,
A common man of India
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