Jai jawaan, jai kisaan, bhaad mein jaaye bhooka insaan?
I want the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister to take strict action against such wastage of food for the sake of a few rich while the country deals with high rate of malnutrition. Andhra Pradesh itself has serious rate of malnutrition as per the India’s Global Hunger Index.[1]
Approx. 25% of the world’s hungry people live in India (approx. 230 million) and around 43% of children under five years old suffer from malnutrition and yet we will allow throwing tomatoes at each other for fun?
Just like Karnataka government banned it in 2011 [2], BAN La Tomatina in Andhra!
Why is this important?
Wasting precious food must not be allowed to become part of our culture in India while there are millions of Indians that go hungry every day. We must stop the La Tomatina festival in Hyderabad. 2 years ago, Delhi and Karnataka banned such festivals due to public protests, why shouldn’t Andhra stand by our farmers and the hungry?
Summary of concerns:
- Huge wastage of edible tomatoes
- The quantity of water that will be used to clean the mess
- Possibility of molestation
- Possibility of increase in tomato rates if such events are repeated beyond the existing high cost
- Set back for any nutrition program in the state
How it will be delivered
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