For more than 20 years, Srinath Yadav has sold bananas and other fruit on this pavement in Mumbai’s posh Malabar Hill. He also sleeps in the same spot where his table with the fruit sits during the day. He is from Allahabad district in UP, where his family depends on the little he makes in a day.
Twelve days ago, when Maharashtra got a new government, Yadav lost his place of work and the spot where he sleeps. It is his misfortune that the new chief minister of the state, Eknath Shinde, decided to move into the bungalow across the road from his stall.
Without so much as a by-your-leave, Yadav was pushed out, to the corner of the pavement (marked out in the photograph below) while the police and multiple police vans park along the road, blocking access to the pavement. And huge hoardings, with the new chief minister’s face adorning them, block the “Jungle Book” paintings on the wall which marks the children’s park on the other side.
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