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"We only had the right to work, not the right to live." This was what migrant labourers were told by panchayat leaders in several villages across the state. Migrant workers are deprived of ration cards, voters'' card and even basic facilities because they are not conventional vote banks. A group of institutions like The Concerned for Working Children, school children''s unions, Makkala Panchayats, Karnataka Migrant Workers Union and Gram Panchayat Hakkottaya Andolana on Monday sought to throw light on several issues they want political parties to highlight in the Lok Sabha elections. Urging political parties to give due recognition to children''s rights as well, activists wanted them to create structures for them to participate in governance from the gram sabha to the national level. Political parties are being asked to draw up strategies to address the needs of working children, conduct poverty mapping, set up flexi-schools, provide free hostels and create provision for vocational education for those above 14 years of age. Shantamma, a migrant labourer from Gulbarga, said that though they had migrated to Bangalore almost two decades ago, the slum she lived in had no water and they were not issued ration cards. "We are not vote banks for any party. We have to pay Rs 2 for one pot of water," she says. The manifestos of political parties failed them. Now, migrant workers and children demand that political parties take up their issues.
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migrant labourer, political parties, workers, water, Bangalore, vore banks, children, demand, vocational education, working, schools, villages, state, panchayat leaders, Karnataka, elections, children''s rights, governance, work, ration cards,
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