The coronavirus pandemic has hit the poor and the vulnerable hard. Many have turned to sell essentials products to support their families. As the poor struggle to make ends meet, officials who have failed to show sympathy or patience in these difficult times.
The latest incident from Madhya Pradesh where civic body officials allegedly overturned a 14-year-old boy’s cart carrying eggs in Indore.
Indore bjp government in Indore bad job …… pic.twitter.com/dSX5ilhXbO
— Vikas Choudhary (@VikasCh05703641) July 23, 2020
The 14-year-old alleged that the Indore civic body officials threw his cart after he refused to pay a bribe of ₹100. He said that the officials warned him to remove his cart from the road or give them ₹100.
When the boy refused to remove his cart or pay the bribe, the civic body officials overturned his cart, which destroyed all the eggs. With his little shop destroyed, the angry teenager is seen in videos gesturing angrily at two men and was also crying.
#Indore: Egg cart vandalised & toppled by Municipal Corporation officials. Vendor, a young boy lives in extreme poverty in a small house at a crematorium. #Indore administration is on an anti-encroachment drive. pic.twitter.com/xNLoImQ6P7
— Mojo Story (@themojo_in) July 23, 2020
The Madhya Pradesh administration has implemented a ‘left-right’ rule for shops. It comes as a measure to control the spread of novel coronavirus.
Why do they have to damage food items? This has been repeatedly seen of late in many instances across the country wherein food items are being damaged or crops being destroyed of people who have been violators of the law (lockdown or enroachments). Saddening to see this.
— Lengdon (@HRajkhowaL) July 23, 2020
Why do these officials love to harass the poor and vunerable? Is humanity dead? Doesn’t their conscious bite? Is earning a livelihood a crime? Shameful incident caught on camera. Praying this boy is compensated. Let us know his bank details if required.
— Jayanti Dey (@jdey63) July 23, 2020
Shavraj has moved onto overturning carts of poor from overturning govts.
What’s common? The poor who want to be Atmanirbhar suffer while BJP buys power— thaNAMOs /CoroNAMO (@kabirazad2017) July 23, 2020
