Law enforcement in Hyderabad, India is racing to round up the city’s beggars and homeless in preparation for White House adviser Ivanka Trump’s visit for the eighth annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit just after Thanksgiving.
The city’s police commissioner issued the unprecedented order earlier this week to ban begging and detain the city’s homeless population just days before 1,500 international business leaders and government officials, including Trump, arrive for the two-day event.
But authorities deny that the push is in preparation for the international gathering.
“It’s a permanent drive,” V.K. Singh, the director of Hyderabad’s prisons, told CNN . “The government, since 30 years, have been trying to figure out what to do about them.”
The city reportedly plans to renew the two month begging ban after it expires in January.
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