An urban citizenship discussion yesterday highlighted the struggle people have drawing lines! One group says sexual abuse in public places isn’t a civic issue even as they champion sustainable, inclusive cities. So we ran those campaigns outside the umbrella (1/n)
Another says fighting for sanitation worker rights, payment dues, PF etc., is ideologically communist; cannot be brought under civic issues! Never mind that their roads, homes and city stinks if not for civic sanitation workers! (2/n)
The third view is that garment worker wage issue protests and support by civil society isn’t under the ambit because it pertains to Karnataka not Bengaluru per se as they are in the peri urban areas! Never mind their units are HQ’ed in the heart of Namma Bengaluru! (3/n)
The fourth says documenting citizenship must include India Against Corruption because of its effort; even though its demands were of the Union. Note that garment workers are consigned to state not city, but IAC with no bearing on city or state is considerable (4/n)
Meanwhile, the mother of all citizenship protests with 10s of lakhs - anti CAA/NRC/NPR, is subject to hemming & hawing! Moral of the story? Most civic activists, upper class/caste/Hindus align less with human rights (gender, caste, religion) than bad roads & corruption. (End)
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