The members of Odisha Milk Farmers Association [OMFA] Jagatsinghpur unit on Tuesday cleaned a Mahatma Gandhi statue with milk and paid floral tributes on his 150th birth anniversary.
The farmer’s body fumed that the milk producers are neglected in Odisha since years and as a mark of protest, milk was poured on the Gandhi statue to clean it on the Thana premises. It was also to remember the father of nation’s sympathy towards milk producers.
About 40 liters of milk were poured to wash the statue. The milk was brought by local famers.
They expressed their disappointment over successive Governments for paying a deaf ear to their plight, said OMFA chairman Rabi Behera, who led the event.
Behera informed that the Government has increased minimum support price (MSP) for paddy but milk’s reasonable price has yet to be fixed. He stated that the price of milk is cheaper in Odisha than in other States.
Among others, OMFA vice chairman Dusasana Mohapatra, Jagatsinghpur district OMFA president Birabar Dalei, Bijaya Behera, Manas Mohanty, Eswar Chandra Das were present.