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2. Starvation: For the past 2 years itself , a massive program for food security for 80 crore people is ongoing in India. Means any person living even near the poverty line (not the 1 dollar day line, but the western standards one) is secured for food.
Really ? Then why did this woman die of hunger on a train that stopped at a Bihar railway station during the 2020 COVID lockdown and the government-imposed reverse migration of laborers ? She died because neither she had the money to buy food at the railway station nor did the railway department provide her free food on the train nor did the state government ( the BJP government of "Vibrant Gujarat" ) and the central government tell her that she stay back in Gujarat where she worked and the government would provide her with food for free during the duration of the lockdown. And during the same lockdown of 2020 this starving laborer in Rajasthan was found eating the carcass of a dog on the highway because he didn't have money to buy food as everything in India needs money, India being the most Capitalist society in history. Fortunately that day a kindly man stopped his car upon seeing the starving laborer and gave him food and water :
Watch the vid in the article.A video is going viral on social media showing the shocking extent to which the coronavirus lockdown has hit the poor.
The video is of a man eating from a carcass, possibly of a dog, on the Jaipur-Delhi Highway.
The video was uploaded on YouTube by Pradhuman Singh Naruka, a Jaipur resident. In the video, Naruka claims he was on his way to Delhi when he spotted the man near Shahpura, which lies in Jaipur district. In the video, which was uploaded on May 18, Naruka asks the man what he was eating and tells him he will die. He then asks the man to move to a spot on the highway near a truck, where he feeds him.
In a Facebook post, Naruka claimed, "Humanity was put to shame in Shahpura when a labourer due to hunger was forced to eat a dog. What is worse is that no person stopped their vehicle and saw the need to help him. I gave him food and water to drink..." Naruka appealed to people to help those in need.
Speaking to THE WEEK, Naruka said the man was possibly a homeless person. He said the incident happened on afternoon of May 18. Naruka added that police officials had contacted him on Thursday, seeking details of the man and the spot where he was found.
Many people shared the video on social media, tagging mediapersons and government officials. Lavanya Ballal, who has been associated with the social media team of the Congress, targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the video. She wrote, "This is beyond heartbreaking. No one deserves this He is eating the carcass of a dead dog. @narendramodi India won’t forget this amount of pain and humiliation heaped of the poor...".
In recent weeks, incidents of deaths of migrant workers walking to their homes and images of their hardship have shocked India. More than 100 migrant labourers have been killed in multiple road and rail accidents across India in recent weeks.
Let me modify your post to say the truth : No dog in India has to sleep hungry with the number of government and NGO schemes and organization to provide aid to the dog even if millions of humans go hungry or are otherwise deprived.