Evicting hawkers or cleansing cities for ‘Corporate India’?

Quadry

As hawkers face eviction across West Bengal, questions grow over BJP policies favouring corporates while targeting India’s informal economy.

Across West Bengal, bulldozers are clearing hawkers from railway stations in the name of “anti-encroachment”. But while poor vendors are branded illegal, India’s biggest corporations continue to enjoy loan write-offs, land transfers and political protection. The contrast reveals the class character of contemporary urban policy under BJP rule.