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'The condition of some Adivasi hamlets is worse than Somalia, worse than what the prime minister described.'
'There are instances when Adivasis have to demolish the hut they live in to bury the dead as they do not have any other place to bury their dear ones.'
'There are tens of thousands of Adivasis who do not have land, a house or even good food to eat.'
'What kind of human development are you talking about?'
At his election rally in Thiruvananthapuram on May 8, Prime Minister Narendra Modi commented that the condition of Adivasi children in Kerala is worse than that of Somalian children.
Modi's comments provoked an uproar in Kerala and the hashtag #pomoneModi which literally meant get lost Modi, was trending on Twitter.
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy threatened to file a defamation case against the PM for insulting the state and its people.
Then came the Facebook post by Kerala's well-known tribal leader C K Janu supporting Modi and criticising Chandy for not seeing the reality.
C K Janu is contesting the assembly election from Sultan Battery in north Kerala with the Bharatiya Janata Party's backing.
She is the leader of the Adivasi Gothra Maha Sabha, a social movement that has been agitating since 2001 for the redistribution of land to the landless tribal people in Kerala.
In 2016, she formed the political party, the Janathipahya Rashtriya Sabha and is contesting the Kerala assembly election as a part of the National Democratic Alliance.
On the final day of campaigning, C K Janu, left, below, spoke over the telephone to Shobha Warrier/Redfiff.com from her constituency.
After the prime minister was widely criticised for his comparison of Attapady with Somalia, you wrote on Facebook that there were 100 Somalias in Attapady...
Yesterday (May 13), an Adivasi woman's two children died here. Do you know why? Because they didn't have proper, nutritious food. This is not an isolated incident.
Incidents like this are widespread and happening regularly. The situation is scary, but nobody wants to talks about it.
Those living outside these areas do not know how these people live. Most of them do not even have proper houses; they live under plastic cover.
They live in such pathetic conditions that they have no house, no food and not even proper paths to walk in some of the interior areas.
When I tread through such terrain and reach where they live, I feel horrible to even ask for votes.
Does anyone have the right to ask their support? The condition in which they live is extremely pitiable.
On one side, Kerala boasts of unenviable growth and Kerala tops the country in human development index also...
http://www.rediff.com/news/intervie...how-you-100-somalias-in-attapady/20160514.htm
'There are instances when Adivasis have to demolish the hut they live in to bury the dead as they do not have any other place to bury their dear ones.'
'There are tens of thousands of Adivasis who do not have land, a house or even good food to eat.'
'What kind of human development are you talking about?'
At his election rally in Thiruvananthapuram on May 8, Prime Minister Narendra Modi commented that the condition of Adivasi children in Kerala is worse than that of Somalian children.
Modi's comments provoked an uproar in Kerala and the hashtag #pomoneModi which literally meant get lost Modi, was trending on Twitter.
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy threatened to file a defamation case against the PM for insulting the state and its people.
Then came the Facebook post by Kerala's well-known tribal leader C K Janu supporting Modi and criticising Chandy for not seeing the reality.
C K Janu is contesting the assembly election from Sultan Battery in north Kerala with the Bharatiya Janata Party's backing.
She is the leader of the Adivasi Gothra Maha Sabha, a social movement that has been agitating since 2001 for the redistribution of land to the landless tribal people in Kerala.
In 2016, she formed the political party, the Janathipahya Rashtriya Sabha and is contesting the Kerala assembly election as a part of the National Democratic Alliance.
On the final day of campaigning, C K Janu, left, below, spoke over the telephone to Shobha Warrier/Redfiff.com from her constituency.
After the prime minister was widely criticised for his comparison of Attapady with Somalia, you wrote on Facebook that there were 100 Somalias in Attapady...
Yesterday (May 13), an Adivasi woman's two children died here. Do you know why? Because they didn't have proper, nutritious food. This is not an isolated incident.
Incidents like this are widespread and happening regularly. The situation is scary, but nobody wants to talks about it.
Those living outside these areas do not know how these people live. Most of them do not even have proper houses; they live under plastic cover.
They live in such pathetic conditions that they have no house, no food and not even proper paths to walk in some of the interior areas.
When I tread through such terrain and reach where they live, I feel horrible to even ask for votes.
Does anyone have the right to ask their support? The condition in which they live is extremely pitiable.
On one side, Kerala boasts of unenviable growth and Kerala tops the country in human development index also...
http://www.rediff.com/news/intervie...how-you-100-somalias-in-attapady/20160514.htm
