“Since this morning, a lot of media persons have been visiting us, asking whether we want to stay in camp or go to flats. What should we say?” said Karim Ahmed. “We had no idea about anything till the media arrived here.”
Ahmed is the pradhan, or head, of the Kanchan Kunj camp in Delhi – home to about 220 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. Last week, union minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced that the Indian government would provide housing and police protection to Delhi’s 1,100-odd Rohingya refugees. Hours later, the central government said there was no such plan, and blamed the media for reporting on it.
