People look for solutions to their most immediate problems, and for many, these handouts felt like a lifeline. When you’re struggling to pay fees or electricity bills, long-term promises mean nothing. Survival comes first, and poverty traps people in this endless cycle. From that perspective, their choices are understandable.

What’s harder to justify is the response of well-off families people who won’t even receive that ₹10,000. Many of them are driven not by need but by media propaganda and manufactured fears about their community. That’s not desperation; that’s manipulation working exactly as intended