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Arunoday Mukharji | |
Reporting from Tamil Nadu | |
Sadananda Barakandaj, 35, owns a small business selling clothes. But during the Covid-19 pandemic, he lost more than $30,000 (about £26,500) and is still trying to make up his losses. | |
No matter who comes to power, he wants stronger economic policies to help small businessmen like him. Being the only breadwinner for a family of three is difficult, he says. | |
Mr Barakandaj grew up in the eastern state of West Bengal. But poverty forced him to migrate to Chennai in the south for work at the age of 16. | |
His story is similar to that of millions of migrant workers in India who travel from their home states to more prosperous ones to find work. | |
The poorer among them were among the worst-affected during the pandemic. Many lost jobs and had to walk for hundreds of miles to get home as India imposed consecutive lockdowns to slow the spread of the virus. | |
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