Work with education will succeed first, and then #FOPL will definitely succeed: Kailashnath Sonkar, MLA

 

Kailashnath Sonkar, MLA, Ajagara, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party

Thank you very much Dr Lenin ji, thank you for inviting me for today’s FOPL programme organised by PVCHR. Respected Rajesh Mishra ji, our former MP of Varanasi. Anil Yadav ji, Lalji Desai ji, Roshni ji, Vandana Shah ji and our party's spokesperson Shashi Pratap Singh ji. Today while telling about packaged food you told how the packaging needs to be done. The way warnings are given on cigarettes. Manoj Sonkar ji BJP’s member of SC / ST Commission is in midst of us. The people seated in the front row might not oppose packaged foods like this one organised here. The noodles are prepared using the food grains, even though I am not against packaged foods. Many of these products use the grains produced by the farmers to benefit the farmers. In another way, whatever tax is imposed on packaged foods, the nation gets more tax in GST, so the country also benefits from it. When it comes to malnutrition, then, when it comes to packaged foods, then it comes to a number of packaged foods in the next line, then I will ask you how many people eat here, and how many children eat. Please raise your hands if you eat. If packaged food is used in your house, please let us know. There are many of them sitting in the back row do they know what packaged foods are? What is the purpose of the FOPL, what do you want to say, since until now no one really knows what this thing is? Can you explain what packaged food is? It is important to know what packaging is for products, since our country's four and a half crore children suffer from malnutrition.

 Malnutrition is caused by people not knowing how to obtain the nutrition, proteins, and minerals needed to advance the body, which is why they are so many, four and a half crore people are malnourished. Those seated in the front row who might not be aware that packaged foods exist. They may be consuming noodles or other products, but not all packaged foods. This is actually what will increase obesity, so mark it that eating it will increase obesity, and by eating it, you will increase blood sugar levels. To give such an indication in such a way that our society, which has not been educated, who does not yet know, can also understand, then this should be made a law. During a discussion with my daughter who is a doctor at #AIIMS, she sent me a What’sapp message informing me that community medicine doctors’ work on it. The doctors in community medicine doing MD, continue it for 12 years working on ways to serve the humanity.

It is great that Lenin ji is working on this, and I thank them in real terms so that the growth of our country's children can be harnessed, enabling them to provide cooperation with full participation and thus be a part of this great nation. As long as the organization follows this pattern, the government should pay attention to what is packaged food. Political parties were called to attract the government's attention. One who knows it best can give a very good lecture on this subject. I would have hardly been aware if I weren't the father of my doctor daughter, since we mostly speak in our political jargon and then shift our responsibilities to others. Lenin ji established his organization to serve the common people, so my best wishes goes to him and his organization and I know he will succeed in this programme.

As Vandana Shah ji described that there is a high amount of sugar, salt or minerals. Therefore, I believe that we also need to do this; the government needs to create a system that our people, who do not understand, cannot find in such shops. They should be indicated through pictures, as if a child is shown obese then it contains high quantity of sugar. During the legislative assembly session, the national president of our party demanded that the education system that is actually in place be corrected. It will be most meaningful if this is done, no matter what this organization wants. Despite the fact that 80% of the people in Uttar Pradesh are illiterate, they are listening to all of these things, but their understanding is lacking. Put in place the notion of one nation, one education, so that children studying on the mats, in sacks, in the villages should have the right to education so that they can know what is good for them, what is bad, what should not be eaten. Those things should be understood by their parents, since they are not educated. Once they know, they will start improving the situation, and the people ahead will begin to be safe. There is a lot of demand, because we have talked about malnutrition. As a result, we have raised the demand, as far as education is concerned, that we must stop both drinking and prohibition myths until the real people understand what is harmful to them. Stop granting permission for intoxicants until people are made aware of it and education imparted to them.

If you have to take intoxicants, you should know what to eat or drink and how much to take. Even if they gulp the entire bottle of intoxicants, there are still pegs in the intoxication, so also, all the things are there. Only then do they develop various diseases, their sugar level rises, those who consume alcohol do not know at all in what quantity to take, about all these things. In the house of Legislative Assembly, our party's national president, Honourable Omprakash Rajbhar ji, said until the state attains full literacy, there is no use of launching de-addiction or prohibition in Uttar Pradesh. I would like to address the Prime Minister of the country from this platform that implement ‘one nation one education’ formula in your country. Make sure that children receive education. Today, each temple in our villages is being built for a cost of one crore rupees. The bhoomi pujan was taking place in Charu village, located in Pindra Assembly constituency, where  Religious & Charitable Affairs minister donated one crore ten lakh rupees for the construction of a temple in this village I saw a roof of an ancient school was sagging and about to collapse. Then I asked that along with the temple, give one crore rupees for a school where the children can get education and learn what we need to do in reality? Our Prime Minister wants that in the entire nation there should be primary and secondary schools but he is giving one crore rupees to every village temple, he should give one or two crore rupees to the schools if he loves the children so much. With one crore rupees, that school will have two floors. Today, children do not have books and their educational knowledge is not increasing. They do not even know what FOPL is. Then we will be able to explain to them what their family knows, then we will have 80 to 85% here who are in favour of #FOPL. They will suffer from malnutrition if they lack knowledge. In addition, they will also continue to suffer from obesity, it will be of no help to them, if they are unaware, then I want to draw attention to them. By enacting the formula of 'One Nation, One Education,' in the same manner that our Prime Minister withdrawn the Farm Bills, it will give a chance to the children to establish themselves through education. The thatched roof under which I grew up in, a Dalit family, I know how to live, I sat while the mother cooked food, I ate roti on the ground, the father taught me a little bit about living. Education is not the only culture, but I saw that education is the mother of culture, so now when I go to my area, they keep staring at me and they don't know who I am? A well-educated family greets me and inquires about my well-being when I visit them. It's not their fault, they don't know who to greet and who not to greet. So how can they tell whether packaged foods are good or bad? If you educate them, you will succeed. Institutions have tried to educate but have failed. The only exception is Kerala. I would like to pay attention to the fact that the institutions that work with education will succeed first, and then FOPL will definitely succeed. Among the podium there are people who are very knowledgeable, educated, and intelligent. I am the least read and least intelligent, but I had my understanding of it that I put in front of you. There must have been some understanding of my point, no matter how little educated the women are in the room. I have kept my words and greeted everyone, this concludes my remarks.