Sonia draws attention to the Janakeeya Samithi’s attempts to oust sex workers from Bangladesh Colony in Kozhikode.

 Most of the sex workers had built houses there with their savings and their children are studying in the nearby schools. Usually they come to the town to do sex work and return home early in the morning. Now if they want to stay with their children they will have to stop with sex work and if they stop sex work they and their children will starve. Or they can live in another place without being able to come home and see their children every day (who cares for the needs of motherhood of a sex worker!). In the beginning CPI (M) gave the women some underpaid and insecure part time work and even that is stopped now. Around forty women were forced to leave the house as their houses were burned down and are living on the pavements and construction lots. Even that has become difficult now as Janakeeya Samithi is on move to clean Kozhikode city and they don’t want to besmirch town with the presence of sex workers.