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.
File photo of Hindu migrants from Pakistan living in mud houses on the outskirts of Jodhpur
JAIPUR: Baser Mal from Sindh in Pakistan, who was living as a refugee, died of Covid-19 on May 2 in his makeshift mud house on the outskirts of Jodhpur. Before Mal, a Hindu, succumbed to coronavirus infection, he was taken to two private hospitals in Jodhpur only to be denied a bed due to his non-citizen status.
The ongoing pandemic has spelled trouble for the Hindu migrants from Pakistan living in eight districts of Rajasthan. They are struggling for beds, vaccines, insurance cover and free ration provided by the state due to their foreign status. Since March 20, seven of them have died in Jodhpur, which has 2,500 such families waiting for Indian citizenship for the last 5-15 years.