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Green campaign: Phoolka to ride cycle, Bittu talks of birds

We have decided to use the cycle up to the DC office to file nomination papersm, Phoolka said.

Bittu at Rakh Bagh in Ludhiana on Sunday. Bittu at Rakh Bagh in Ludhiana on Sunday.

Aware that Ludhiana is one of the most polluted cities of the world, the Lok Sabha candidates on Sunday adopted different ways to show their concern for pollution in the industrial city.

While Aam Aadmi Party candidate H S Phoolka has decided to ride a bicycle to file his nomination papers on Monday, Congress candidate Ravneet Singh Bittu held a meeting with Pakshi Sewa Samiti at Rakh Bagh on Sunday morning.

The AAP also distributed glasses of clean drinking water to the public on Sunday. Prabh Sahay Phoolka, daughter of H S Phoolka, said, “We distributed around 250 glasses of clean drinking water. Ludhiana has been grappling with the problem of pollution for long, and the greenery is hardly visible. It was our campaign ‘clean air, clean water and clean politics’ under which water was distributed.”

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She added, “We have decided to use the cycle up to the DC office to file nomination papers. It is not only affordable for aam aadmi but also saves environment.”

The AAP distributed water in disposable glasses with tags of ‘Clean Air, Clean Water and Clean Politics’ on it. Also, the party symbol broom was printed on them. The AAP asked for votes for candidate H S Phoolka. The water was distributed in Sarabha Nagar and on Pakhowal road. “People of Ludhiana, especially those living near Buddha Nullah, do not get clean drinking water. If we are elected, we will work to get clean water for them,” he said.

Congress candidate Ravneet Singh Bittu reached Rakh Bagh on Sunday morning and offered food to the birds. He held a meeting with Pakshi Sewa Samiti, an organisation working for treatment of injured birds in the city.

Bittu said, “Ludhiana environment is so polluted that population of birds is decreasing fast. Birds are our national asset and I will work for their conservation if elected.”

Divya Goyal is a Principal Correspondent with The Indian Express, based in Punjab. Her interest lies in exploring both news and feature stories, with an effort to reflect human interest at the heart of each piece. She writes on gender issues, education, politics, Sikh diaspora, heritage, the Partition among other subjects. She has also extensively covered issues of minority communities in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She also explores the legacy of India's partition and distinct stories from both West and East Punjab. She is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, the most revered government institute for media studies in India, from where she pursued English Journalism (Print). Her research work on “Role of micro-blogging platform Twitter in content generation in newspapers” had won accolades at IIMC. She had started her career in print journalism with Hindustan Times before switching to The Indian Express in 2012. Her investigative report in 2019 on gender disparity while treating women drug addicts in Punjab won her the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity in 2020. She won another Laadli for her ground report on the struggle of two girls who ride a boat to reach their school in the border village of Punjab.       ... Read More

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