Chapter 495 Banning Order

On December 15, 2019, the police arrested protesters at the Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi. After the incident was reported, the controversy gradually became a national topic and suddenly became a hot topic in the news.

This is naturally due to the fact that the opposition parties such as the Congress Party were secretly fanning the flames.

For them, they had been trying to make this matter bigger so as to attack the BJP, but the effect was mediocre.

Now the situation has changed and everything is developing in their favor.

If we don't catch up now and take the opportunity to beat the man down, when will we catch him?

Various groups in other states also held marches and protests.

However, the largest scale and impact were in the capital Delhi area, which began on February 24, 2020 and was later called the February 24 Indian capital riots.

On February 24, 2020, supporters and opponents of the Citizenship Act in Delhi threw bricks and stones at each other on the streets. The situation gradually escalated and even several people fired guns.

In the following days, the situation became increasingly serious. Shootings occurred every day, and more and more people were shooting at each other with guns, resulting in increasing casualties.

In just a few days, dozens of people died, including police officers and some government officials, and nearly a thousand people were injured, one-third of whom were gunshot wounds.

The riots continued and then quickly spread to various states in India, becoming riots across India.

Of course, the CAA bill has not yet been actually implemented at this time.

It was supposed to be implemented on January 10, 2020, but it could not be implemented because the specific legal provisions of the CAA Act had not yet been formulated.

This is normal. Given India's work efficiency, we haven't thought much about the specific terms yet.

Even if there are some, there will be a lot of loopholes if they are really implemented.

In other words, the CAA bill has now been passed and become law.

But I don’t know when it will be truly implemented.

In fact, it will not be truly implemented until 2024, which is before the election of the third term of the old immortal.

Of course he did this for a purpose.

That is to gain more support from Hindus and prepare for the third general election.

After all, the CAA bill is aimed at suppressing Islam. In recent years, under the instigation of the BJP, religious confrontation in India is still very serious.

Especially Hinduism and Islam, which are as incompatible as water and fire.

The implementation of this bill is to suppress Islam in order to seek greater support from Hindus.

Unfortunately, these two governments obviously disappointed the people. Even though Laoxian and his men tried every possible means, they were ultimately unable to reverse the downward trend.

However, for now, the reason these counter-protesters are making such a big fuss is mainly to prevent the bill from being actually implemented.

The fact that a bill has become law is already a fact and is difficult to change.

The best way now is to prevent the bill from being implemented and put pressure on the government.

These protests are certainly effective.

Due to the huge resistance and the lack of specific provisions in the bill, the implementation of the bill was temporarily shelved.

It can be said that the opposition won.

As for larger demands, such as the repeal of the CAA bill, the opposition, including the Congress Party, has no motivation to continue pushing them forward.

There are many reasons for this.

If you want to cancel a law, you need to pass it in the federal parliament, but now this parliament is in the hands of the BJP, and even if the Congress Party tries its best, it will be of no avail.

Unless they come to power in the next election and then resolve the issue through parliament.

This is not something that can be resolved now.

Luoton knew very well that the Congress Party had gradually calmed down on this matter and stopped creating public opinion to attack the ruling party.

Because they found that using this topic to attack the People's Party was not that effective.

The original intention of the Congress Party was naturally to hope that such topics would arouse public anger and make the people oppose the BJP.

India's national election is over, but local elections are still being held in various states.

Everyone is now eyeing the local elections, trying to compete for state power.

The Congress Party and other opposition parties found that their huge fuss did not help much in the state elections.

For example, the results of some recent state elections provide some clues.

The BJP actually gained in the state elections in the northeast and north and did not lose many votes due to the CAA bill controversy.

This isn't too surprising.

After all, Hindus are the majority population.

Although these protests have caused quite a stir, the mainstream public opinion is still on the side of Laoxian and his group.

Coupled with the raging epidemic, everyone's attention has also been diverted.

What was coming finally came, and Rotun had his woman and relatives make all kinds of preparations in advance.

Stock up on food, various daily necessities, and preferably various isolation work.

If you can stay at home, do so and try to avoid contact with outsiders. All of this is to protect yourself.

In fact, there were patients in India as early as February.

By March, the number of infections was rising rapidly.

In view of the global epidemic situation and the rapidly increasing number of infections in India, Lao Xian delivered a televised speech on the evening of March 24.

He said that starting from 00:00 on the 25th, India will implement a nationwide lockdown, prohibiting people from going out at will.

This kept the police busy.

It's not that you can just blockade it. India doesn't have the execution capability like China.

Therefore, many people still go out in violation of regulations.

These need to be handled by the police.

When the police are patrolling, if they find anyone going out, they will beat him with sticks.

Due to the ban, countless low-income people have lost their source of income.

You have to know that many poor people in India have to work all day to buy food and support their families, and they have no savings at all.

It was sealed off and people were forbidden to go out, so they had no surplus food at all.

The so-called relief from the government is totally useless. There are too many people and it’s too chaotic.

Those who can receive some relief are considered lucky. Of course, the amount of food is definitely not enough. Even if it is not enough, those who can receive some are the lucky few.

Most people just have to wait to die.

Therefore, after the ban policy came out, a large number of protests and riots immediately broke out among the grassroots.

Although Laoxian personally announced the ban policy, this policy could not be effectively implemented.

During this period, at least tens of millions of people were moving around during the lockdown.

Those poor people who originally made a living in the city had to ignore the ban and return to their hometowns with their families due to financial difficulties.

There is no other way. The city is under lockdown now and they have no chance to go out and find a job. Aren’t they just trapped here and waiting to starve to death?

Going back to my hometown, to the countryside or something, maybe there is still some life.

Since the Indian government issued a lockdown order, transportation across the country has been cut off, so these people returning home are unable to take transportation such as trains and cars.

They can only drive their own ox carts, donkey carts, ride motorcycles, bicycles, or even walk hundreds or thousands of kilometers to get home.

Countless people lost their lives while fleeing the city.

Some died of starvation, some died of disease, and some were robbed and murdered. In short, this society became even more turbulent and unstable.

All hell breaks loose.

When the epidemic broke out, the demand for masks exploded immediately.

Sori's eyes have turned red recently, and he has been shouting at the director of the mask factory on the phone, saying, "I want more masks."

The factory manager complained bitterly, saying that the limit had been reached. The factory was already running 24 hours a day and the workers worked in shifts.

Thanks to Rawdon's orders, Sori quickly acquired a mask factory.

This factory is probably the largest one around Mumbai.

However, Rawdon was still not satisfied with this.

So after the acquisition, Sori immediately expanded the factory and updated it with more new machines. These machines were all imported from abroad, naturally from China.

It can be said that the current factory production capacity has increased by thousands or tens of thousands times compared to before.

Sori naturally also stockpiled a large amount of materials for making masks, and for this purpose he set up several large storage warehouses nearby.

He just called the mask factory and learned about the situation before sitting back in his boss chair.

He couldn't help but pull his tie. He was too excited just now and his blood was boiling.

It's so profitable, the profit is even higher than selling drugs, it's outrageous.

This is a mask, a cheap product, and its price is almost as high as gold.

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It is basically impossible to find masks on the market, and people are everywhere looking for masks with money in hand.

Large mask factories like his have naturally been targeted for a long time, and various buyers want to get goods from him.

For this reason, many important people have come to him in person, hoping that he can be flexible and provide some masks to some of their people.

At this moment, whoever has more masks will have a huge say.

Of course, masks are money, gold.

Having a mask means great wealth.

There is currently no effective treatment for this virus.

Prevention is obviously the top priority.

This mask is the first step and the simplest protection.

No one would joke about their own life.

Naturally, Sori had reported these situations to Roton a long time ago.

Roton's answer to him was very simple. The requests of some real big shots still had to be met. Of course, it didn't mean that he would give them as much as they wanted. After all, masks were in short supply nowadays.

In terms of price, we can give a little discount based on the current price, but the discount is not that big.

The price of masks is now thousands of times higher than usual, and some people still can’t get them.

Sori was drinking the red wine in the glass and feeling very happy.

I just don’t know how long this epidemic will last.

If Sori were to say, he hopes the epidemic will last as long as possible.

Then he can make more money.

As a businessman, who can resist money?

As for those who died, he didn't care.

In addition to mask factories, thermometer, ventilator and oxygen production factories are also extremely popular.

Thermometers, ventilators, oxygen cylinders, etc. are also in short supply.

Sori's admiration for Rotten was simply overwhelming.

He believed that this was the instruction from the gods that Rodon received.

Although Rawdon said he did this originally to prevent some flu, air pollution and so on.

But Sori still firmly insisted on his own ideas.

And he shares his ideas with others, too.

Most people agree with his point of view.

Everyone can see what Rawdon has achieved.

There is no better explanation for the hero emerging from the slums than that he was favored by the gods.

With the protection of gods, such people will be respected by people.

Sori even secretly hired someone to spread this view in some newspapers.

Of course he was not looking for news about the truth. He knew very well that the news about the truth would not produce such news, at least not now.

So he looked for other tabloids, such as local news media.

These media are generally targeted at small areas, but most ordinary people will basically watch them.

Sori felt that he had made more people aware of Roden's greatness.

Since the mask factory in Sori has a large production capacity and sufficient supply, Masoya's hospital is not short of these epidemic prevention materials and has donated a lot of them to the government and some public hospitals.

The People's Party also has a lot of masks to distribute to the public for free.

This made the reputation of Masoya and the Civilian Party even greater.

Of course, for Masoya, more patients came in from wealthy families.

As the number of patients increases, the medical situation in India becomes more severe.

For example, there are definitely some mask factories across India.

But the production capacity of these factories is not enough for a country with a population of more than one billion.

In the early stages, these factories were still able to operate, but soon, they gradually shut down and stopped production.

Because they have no raw materials to produce masks.

Who would normally hoard materials in large quantities? At this time, it was too difficult to acquire raw materials.

Due to the lockdown policy, all forms of transportation and so on have basically come to a standstill.

Where there are materials, they simply cannot be delivered to the factories.

Public hospitals are overcrowded and resources were already tight, but now the situation has exploded.

Too many patients can only wait to die in the hospital without receiving any treatment.

Rich people have other options, namely private hospitals.

Because the virus is so powerful, anyone with a little money will rush to private hospitals once they show symptoms, hoping to save their lives.

This has also led to a surge in the number of patients seeking treatment in private hospitals.

At first, these private hospitals were overjoyed.

To them, patients are customers who come to give them money.

They wish there were as many people as possible.

But as time went on, these private hospitals could no longer bear it.

Their medical system also collapsed, mainly because the wards were overcrowded and all kinds of medical supplies were exhausted.

In particular, there is a complete shortage of emergency medical equipment and supplies such as ventilators, oxygen cylinders, and antipyretics.

This is fatal.

If you tell a patient who needs oxygen to stay alive that there is no oxygen, aren't you telling him that he can die?

What happened in public hospitals also happened in many private hospitals.

After all, no one expected that so many people would be infected by this epidemic, and it seemed like it would last for an endless period of time.

At this time, the beautiful services provided by private hospitals are no longer popular and no one pays attention to them.

Because they spend a lot of money in private hospitals but still can't get good treatment, and even many rich people die in hospitals, this makes these family members very emotional.

Many of these people have backgrounds and began to denounce these private hospitals. For a time, these private hospitals were also in a state of panic.

(End of this chapter)