Editor,
The National Milk Day is celebrated every year in India on 26 November to mark the birth anniversary of the father of the White Revolution in India, the legendary Dr Verghese Kurien. Because of the untiring efforts of Dr Kurien and his leadership, India achieved self-sufficiency in milk production, and brand Amul was created. Millions of farmers and their families have benefitted just because of the Herculean task he initiated in the 1960s.
However, it is dismaying and disheartening to find that, in the last few days, major streets in cities (GS Road in Guwahati in Assam is an example), especially in BJP-ruled states are lined up with posters of the ministers in the union and state governments in the name of the upcoming National Milk Day on 26 November. This is total disrespect to the very man on whose birth anniversary the National Milk Day is celebrated.
There is not a single acknowledgement anywhere about Dr Kurien. Ministers seem to have usurped the very deeds of the great son of India.
D Bhutia,
Guwahati