Rahul Gandhi listens to pain of gig workers, auto drivers in poll-bound Telangana
A woman who has worked for decades as a health care worker wants some type of social security. A young deliveryman hopes for compensation if he suffers an accident. An automobile driver is worried about the fall in his income because the price of GLP has skyrocketed from 31 to 70 rupees.
Who will lend an understanding ear to these real concerns amid lofty affirmations that India will transform into the Vishwaguru? Rahul Gandhi spent an hour on Tuesday with health care workers, car conductors and concert workers in Telangana, at a venue destined for the ballot boxes, understanding their fight for a means of living and promising measures to improve their lives if Congress forms the government.
Although many, who fought against extreme poverty, were left disconcerted when they saw Rahul among them, some cried out of gratitude. “No one ever sat down with us to listen to our problems. People treated us with contempt. Here is the first person who came to us. You are like God to us”, he counseled, requesting that measures be taken to create a system of support for the poor.
This was a different conversation in a campaign that has heard accusations of worth thousands of rupees. People are counting on meaningless amounts, in the name of “inflation” and being obliged to pay medical bills: the real world that rarely has space in the national discourse dominated by the summit of the G20, the Ram temple in Ayodhya and India converting. in the third largest temple. economy. When the Prime Minister visits remote corners of the country, he asks if people are proud that “India’s terror is going on in the world”.
It is ironic that the pain of the war is reaching the lowest strata of society.
Through Rahul’s interactions and not through the media of communication, who have to a large extent remained obsessed with the government’s propaganda of progress.
How the poor face the health crisis, how they get thousands of rupees to pay for treatment and how long working hours without a good diet affect their body were the topics that cropped up in the conversation that the Congress leader held on Tuesday.
The repartidores said that earlier they used to receive 40 rupees per order, but now it has fallen to 20 rupees, even as the price of petrol has skyrocketed to 110 rupees per litre, thereby increasing their movement. Yes, behind the fanfare of Vishwaguru, the fight is for 20 rupees.
He said that there was no security or guarantee for an increase in income or that the companies that worked for them did not have any social security. Rahul promised a law similar to the one in Rajasthan for workers to take charge if Congress came to power.
A worker of a food delivery application explained how his work from morning to night brought him Rs 1,000 a day. With around 300 to 400 rupees spent in petrol, you only have 600 rupees in your pocket a day. “We sent us on the road at dawn in the late afternoon. Sleeping in the cedar for nightly orders. With this package, we have to pay from our own pocket”, said a child, lamenting that there would be nothing for his family and he would die in an accident.
Live the life of a barrender in the context of the draconian suggestion of a 70-hour work week given by the founder of Infosys, Narayana Murthy. When Rahul asked her to narrate her daily routine, an old lady said: “I wake up at 3.30 in the morning, cook and go to the work place at 5 in the morning. The first tea that I took was around 11 in the morning, followed by dal-rice in the evening. “I moved into the house at 6 in the afternoon after 12 hours of hard work and earned just Rs 13,000 a month.”
Said that his son had died and that the gold of the family had to be sold to treat his blackness. “The government betrayed us. All the promises made during the election period are later forgotten. KCR told us that the government would build us a house. We could not achieve anything”, he said.
For four years, in the battle of the people who have to deal with scarce resources, the Prime Minister and sector economists gave speeches on obsequies while defending 14 million rupees in corporate loans canceled by the banks.
Automobile drivers will explain how the increase in diesel prices, the GNC and the GLP have reduced their incomes. They also talked about the police charges and the high charges for permits.
Rahul assured all these people that he will organize meetings with the ministers concerned once a Congress government is formed to examine what can be done to help them. He also promised welfare measures for these sectors.
