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Sir , Punj it not like as “नोट बंदी ” . In lock down all diversified authorities had to give bread & butter earners to – time ,shelter , food , Govt. package etc. before announcement then we were felt better quarantine status than happing . We should have done best picking Corona ‘s patients who came in India
A heart less idiot .if he know the sufferings of starvation he might not have commented like this.This type of people will ensue the defeat of BJP.
Punj is right and I fully support his statement. At this time the workers are not going to get a better enviorment at their native homem
Can all these bleeding hearts who criticize Balbir Punj deny that the migrant workers trekking back are posing great risk to themselves, their fellow travellers and their home towns? Do the poor have higher right to act irresponsibly. Delhi government has promised them place to stay and food. Why should these people ignore such offer?
If promises were horses, beggars would ride. If all the promises of the politicians were implemented, then Mera Bharat would be Ram Rajya.
Mr. Balpur bunk is staying with his family nd may be God blessed with good weath. We are happy butWhat about the daily wagers working faraway fr their home towns .how they feel about their families safety in their home towns.Atleast the govt should provide free buses as one time measure to reach their destination This is the humble request to our honourable P.M in this time. Family seperation is worst than corona infection. It is a similar problem now we are facing in all states. God pls save our people ,our country nd the entire world from this critical times….
Surely some people are living in Ivory Tower. Punj saheb, please recall the plight of the exodus of people post India-Pak Independance. None had the slightest inkling whether they would reach their destination but it was the spirit of never say die that kept them going. Let us recall our history and take cue from it. Can we be little considerate for those who are not well off ?
I wonder why migrant labour is leaving Delhi only walking all the way? There are equal number or more labour in Bengaluru, Chennai, Kerala, J&K. Why such a commotion has not happened at those places? Why only at Delhi?
What about senior citizens who are sick n vulnerable who are stranded at various places they should be allowed to get back to their homes. They may be permitted as special cases otherwise it increase risk of infection.
Senior citizen with history of critical ailments stranded may be permitted to travel to home town.
Dear Balbir Sir, just one question for you to get to the situation they are in.
Question.)
Have you ever been in your life to an NGO for getting food for the family and yourself in a long queue line ?
If yes, then please think of that flashback and you’ll get the answer why they are on foot without food to be with their root.
If no, then you’re not eligible to comment over anything or utter a single letter against them. Cuz to feel for them you need to be like them first. Everyone in our country isn’t born with a golden spoon population of less than 10%
Educated but not civilized. Parents might be feeling shame on their beloved son’s tweets
This central Gov just don’t take any blame after doing blunders. The world saw how community spread started in Italy and Iran at the start of March. Everyone saw it coming. They had 20 days to take a decision on lockdown before community spread started in India. Did the gov not know how many percent of Indian’s work on daily wages and. What planning the Central gov did for daily wagers ? No planning. Same situation was created while notebandi. Back then poor people were in lines for ATM now they are in the line for buses.
The right question to ask is “What planning the Kejriwal gov did for poor workers as he is the CM of Delhi.?” But AAPPees can never take responsibilities as they have always been activists and would remain like that. They always look towards the central government for doing job they are supposed to do. Why not good for nothing CM Kejriwal resign immediately? More Kejriwal remains the CM of Delhi morethe Delhiites would feel betrayed.
As usual, journalist Mr. Ashutosh makes no sense at all.
One has to agree with Mr. Punj on this issue. What is it that the migrant workers are going home for? Jobs await them there? Money awaits them there? They will be just as much penniless and jobless back in the village. So why go to the village? What purpose does it serve?
On each news channel, doctors are explaining 24*7 how the virus spreads from one person to another. Till now, thankfully, it is limited to the cities. Our cities have much better health infrastructure and highly skilled medical personnel to take care of the sick.
These migrant labourers are sure to carry the disease with them to remote villages of UP and Bihar which may not even have a hospital. What, till now, has been an urban disease will rapidly spread to the rural areas because of this mass migration.
The migrant labourers are just an irresponsible bunch. Instead of condemning Mr. Punj for being “heartless” people must see the rationale of his opinions and arguments. The last thing we need now is political mudslinging over this issue. A logical and rational approach is the need of the hour to deal with the crisis.
The same reason wealthy NRIs flew back to India in Boeing 787s using taxpayer’s money.
Well said!
“SATTYA GAYA HAi” aptly fits Balbir Punj.
In this instance Balbir Punj has definitely gone wrong. He should immediately apologise to thousands of poor workers who definitely knows what is good for them and the nation. It’s not workers but Delhi government’s failure to anticipate the situation and take pre emptive actions.
Standard bhakt diversionary tactic. Blame others when it is clear that their fearless leaders completely botched the execution of something that needed to be done.
If Kejriwal is not poor workers’ leader in Delhi, he should resign immediately. Kejriwal is CM of Delhi but he always looks towards Modi for performing. AAPPees are worthless in times of emergencies. Like cowards they fire from anonymous shoulders.
Bhakts write under fake names. It is quite clear that your bosses botched up big time and are using trolls to divert attention. Who is responsible for law and order in Delhi? Why wasn’t the question of essential supplies not thought through? And the plight of migrant workers is not only in Delhi – it is across the country. Bhakts won’t have answers. They only blame everyone but themselves.
Truth of the matter is, their “fearless” leaders are cowards like the proverbial ostrich who buries its head in sand in the time of danger.
No one is walking hundreds of kilometres, along with children and the elderly, thinking this is the Annapurna Base Camp Trek. No proper shelter or toilet facilities, not enough food. These are desperate people who had fallen off the radar when the national lockdown was announced. It is with great difficulty that some state governments have been shamed into providing skeletal bus services. I have read of two hit and run accidents where some of these people have been killed, despite traffic being so sparse. We all claim to have been conceived on the couch of humility. However, it does not take long to sink with a sigh on an overstuffed sofa in a football field sized drawing room, watching Ramayana on a 60 inch TV screen. Aap sab bhi ghar mein baith kar chill karo na, hamari tarah.
According to Mr. Punj’s logic, foreign travellers should be prosecuted as they brought the disease to India. Why should a person stay in an alien land without any income and without food?
This fellow has clearly not evolved to normal emotional levels. He displays the bizarre heartless-ness that some of the well-off in India display – which explains a lot of ills in our society, including the abject poverty despite an abundance of talent and resources.
Balbir Punj is only showing his crudeness through such comments. Tarun Vijay has answered him very aptly. Misery causes sadness, and when we are sad we want to huddle together with people we love and those who love us in return. This man Punj even looks ugly to me, from the photo at the top of this article. Does he have the guts to tell Modi that he should have uttered some words of solace during his speech, some reassurance to the poor among us, who by the very terseness of their circumstances tend to fall pray to fears quickly and need some words of kindness? Punj is a mean man even by BJP standards. (I am pleasantly surprised by Tarun Vijay’s rejoinder, who I think is an RSS man?)