Haryana Assembly Polls: Migration via 'dunki' route, drug abuse echo loud among voters
Talk to the hukka-smoking elders playing cards in villages or those on their morning jogs in urban parks, the issue of migration of youth, especially through the 'dunki' route and drugs feature prominently. Dunki or the mule route, is the slang used to gain unauthorised entry into the US, UK, Canada and Australia.
Angoor Devi, in her early 60s, at Narukhera village near Karnala asks her husband Chand Singh whether their son Vikas has called or not. Smoking a hukka, along with others from the village, Singh says he was still waiting for his call. A Jat, Singh who owns six acres, says the land he has is just sufficient for his entire family. «Aage ka bhi toh sochna pade hai, Yehi soch ke chora bahar chala gaya dunki mar ke (But we have to think about the future as well, that's why my son went abroad),» Singh says.
Roshan Lal, who was sitting near Singh, says «apnae lugai payengi manas milengi hi nahin (In several houses you will find women, not young boys)» as they have gone abroad. The same is the story in Bastora village near Gharaunda, where there is a significant presence of the Ror community. In Shahabad from where many hockey players, especially women players, have come, Gurudev Kamboj, a local transporter, says 'nasha' (drug abuse) is spreading fast among youngsters so is the craze to go abroad.
Among those going abroad are also youth from affluent Jat families, Punjabis and other castes. People from relatively weaker economic background opt for the Dunki route.
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