Hindu Migrants Waiting For Citizenship Struggle For Covid-19 Vaccines And Treatment, Seven Dead: Report
Hindu refugees from Pakistan in India
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought difficulties for the Hindu migrants from Pakistan living in eight border districts of Rajasthan. They struggle for beds, vaccines, insurance cover and free ration provided by the state due to their foreign status and absence of citizenship as per a report in
Times of India.
Since 20 March, seven of them have died in Jodhpur, which has 2,500 such families waiting for Indian citizenship for the previous decade or more.
Baser Mal, one such refugee from Sindh in Pakistan, died of Covid-19 on 2 May in his makeshift mud hut on the outskirts of Jodhpur.