Train in Maharashtra runs over 16 Indian migrants

[hussain0216]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1258820687453618179

 

[hussain0216]

Life is cheap

Yesterday they had 500 or something effected by a chemical gas leak or something

 

[Imran Khan]

ohhh damn sad poor guys .

 

[Trailer23]

India is such a huge @ss country. Why do people find only the train tracks as the best possible place to sleep?

Are the tracks for some reason more comfortable?

As far as i'm concerned, the Train didn't run over 'em. They practically committed suicide 'cause that's the only way a sane person would see it.

 

[Goenitz]

@Joe Shearer @jamahir
are they escaping from police who beat them on road... so they opted to travel on track. also if they don't know their home/village/city direction, that is why they are using railway tracks? also normally railway tacks are straight and shortest way between cities..

 

[Joe Shearer]

@Joe Shearer @jamahir
are they escaping from police who beat them on road... so they opted to travel on track. also if they don't know their home/village/city direction, that is why they are using railway tracks? also normally railway tacks are straight and shortest way between cities..

When contacted, Jalna Superintendent of Police S. Chaitanya said,"We have strictly sealed our borders, as Buldana and Aurangabad districts have been marked as red-zones. As a policy matter, we are not allowing any entry or exit sans valid travel pass."

So as to avoid getting zeroed by the police on the highways, these migrant workers opted for the railway tracks heading for Aurangabad. After walking almost 40 kms., these exhausted workers decided to take rest on the railway tracks at Satna, and decided to resume their journey on Friday morning.

As the place where they took a halt was visibly deserted, and they feared snakes and other animals would crawl around, all of them slept on the railway tracks, which are considerably on a height from the ground level.

 

[Shantanu_Left]

India is such a huge @ss country. Why do people find only the train tracks as the best possible place to sleep?

Are the tracks for some reason more comfortable?

As far as i'm concerned, the Train didn't run over 'em. They practically committed suicide 'cause that's the only way a sane person would see it.

In the absence of government direction and supplies, the migrant labourers took it upon themselves to walk back to their home villages by following the railway tracks. I am not in India at the moment but I assume the highways were completely closed during the lockdown period using barricades and police bandobast everywhere. Indian police are goons in uniform, they always beat poor people with lathis.

By following the railway tracks, the labourers had at least hopes of reaching home. The directions are accurately displayed at the track interchange. The Indian government does not particularly care about the railway infrastructure, it's for poor people anyway. All the upper middle classes and wealthy people (BJP's core supporters) can afford flights or have the luxury to stay home during the lockdowns.

No one in India really cares about the poor rural migrants, especially not any BJP leaders. They are as dispensable as toilet paper.

This story is a symbol of India's human tragedy.

 

[jamahir]

but I assume the highways were completely closed during the lockdown period using barricades and police bandobast everywhere. Indian police are goons in uniform, they always beat poor people with lathis.

@Joe Shearer has answered that in post# 6.

 

[Joe Shearer]

@Joe Shearer has answered that in post# 6.

We as a people have to fear the present, and may only hope for the future. This is what I wrote to a Pakistani friend; we are irreconcilably opposed, he in his patriotism, I in mine. Yet he is a decent honorable man, and I respect him greatly.

First he wrote, in consolation:

"Sometimes I think God has put us all in uncompromising positions, to learn to live together, but it's also a flaw in human beings where power rules; I would say the colonial powers also left a messed up world and were all still suffering today because of them. Had it not been for them probably we'd have different borders altogether."

I wrote back:

"What I wrote last was in an overwrought mood; my mind was filled with a horrific vision of children and women and men on a railway track cut to pieces with their limbs scattered all around, thanks to our system taking such great care over pieces of paper that the human beings are ground to sausages by the machinery.

"...where power rules..." What is there to improve on that phrase of yours? THAT is our problem, it's about power, NOT about service. Instead of every district magistrate being charged to ensure that the people in his or her district are fed, clothed and housed, we charge them with collecting revenue, with smoothing the bureaucratic machinery, with carrying out policy set by utterly corrupt individuals who have made a profession out of cheating the people of their funds, and with planning and plotting to get out of the districts into the central secretariat. The police? do you have a couple of days to spare? I have three times that much to say, but will try to compress it.

That is why I fear the majority. It is a monster, eating everything else, everything that is not itself, and then, bereft of all other food sources, turning on itself. That is the majority looking at Muslims, at Sikhs, and the Dalit; that is why Kashmiri kids studying in Rajasthan were beaten and insulted, and why they are unlikely to return any time in the future. That is the same majority that motorcycles past young women from Mizoram or Meghalaya, and shout 'Chinky' at them. The same majority that sternly warns Bengalis not to eat meat during Navaratri (never a Bengali festival) because they don't eat it at that time.

I could go on and on, but we are truly sick."