In one of the most tragic videos that has been doing the rounds on the internet is this one from the Bihar railway station, where a baby can be seen playing with the shroud covering the dead body of his mother.
The clip is from a station in Muzaffarpur in Bihar, where the 23-year-old woman had arrived in a special train for migrants on Monday.
The woman, said to be Arvina Khatun, 35, is seen lying dead on the platform, with two bags stuffed with her belongings kept away from her.
The clip widely shared on social media, sees the toddler tugging at the cloth placed over his mother’s body. The cloth comes off but his mother doesn’t move; she had died moments before. According to her family, she died of extreme heat, hunger and dehydration.
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The video was shared on social media by many including Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh who had griticised Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, even calling him “the most disrespectful, insensitive and failed railway minister in India’s history”.
“Does the BJP government not see the pain of this innocent, people are dying of hunger and thirst,” he had asked, alleging that the government was busy pointing fingers.
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav however had some reassuring news in this regard.
“For the moment we are providing financial assistance of 5 lakhs for both the children. That will be there in a fixed deposit until they attain adulthood,” Yadav said.
The RJD leader also revealed that that Khatoon’s husband had left them two years ago.