- At the outset, let’s all take a moment and reflect on how and why the word migrants made its presence in the lexicon of humankind since time immemorial. As history amply demonstrates in lucid form, humanity is always on the lookout for greener pastures and hence imbued with migratory traits, compelling one to sail across the oceans perpetually. But for humankind’s quest for inquisitiveness, we would not have witnessed such developments overcoming innumerable challenges along the way, right through our existence. Otherwise, generation after generation would have failed to reap the benefits of revolutionary inventions, developments, and hitherto unknown usages of newer initiatives. Humanity must be indebted to all such novelty factors.
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- Since migration is one of the most ancient adaptations fueling humanity to progress across the oceans, the question arises of how people within an area have helped grow the country they represent to make it what it is. Let’s look at how India, as a country with such diversity in tradition, culture, language, ethnicity, and heritage, has managed to retain the fulcrum of our identity. Yes, as a free democratic country, Indians are privileged to enjoy the rights mandated by the Constitution to freely move around and establish themselves in search of livelihood/better avenues. Particularly, people from not-so-advanced states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, and Odisha have always produced scores of migrants to establish themselves elsewhere.
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- Bihar goes to the polls in a few months from now. Unsurprisingly, Bihari migrants find themselves at the centre of a high-decibel electoral sparring. When politics is at play, you can rest assured that not much can be expected. As it is, Bihar is amid a storm courtesy of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the Election Commission, allowing opposition to join hands and train guns against the BJP. Bihar’s allies in government, JDU and BJP, used Stalin’s recent stop to support ally Congress to revive earlier DMK slurs against Bihari migrants in Tamil Nadu. Stalin and his ministers sought to focus instead on the recent announcement of TN being crowned as India’s most industrialized state and top employer of factory workers. Yes, Bihar and TN couldn’t be further apart.
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- As we know, Bihar remains stuck at the bottom, caste networking cementing its place in poverty and poor human development. TN, despite its own caste politics, has pushed ahead, progressing steadily on the economic front and in inclusivity as well as human development performance. Certainly, TN’s success shines brighter also because Bihar sets the bar so low. Both states are inseparable, bound by an endless stream of migrants. Bihar pushes them out, TN pulls them in. Of course, anti-migrant politics is an evergreen topic central to any political right’s appeal globally. It’s no different in TN as every party is ever-ready to whip up migrant hate. Tragically, the fact is that migrants don’t get to exercise their franchise during elections. Migrants cannot be ignored.
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