Akhilesh Yadav: The party employees can be seen celebrating the birthday with a cake shaped like a tomato and handing out boxes filled with the vegetable in the video. On Saturday, the Samajwadi Party’s president Akhilesh Yadav celebrated his 50th birthday. The party members came up with a novel idea to mark the occasion by giving out tomatoes to draw attention to the rising costs of the crop.
Tomato Distribution on Akhilesh Yadav’s Birthday Highlights Soaring Prices Amidst Rain Impact
“Today is our party president Akhilesh Yadav’s birthday, which we always celebrate by celebrating sweets. However, this time, we are celebrating it by distributing tomatoes to highlight the inflation in the country,” a party worker told news agency PTI. The party employees can be seen celebrating the birthday with a cake shaped like a tomato and handing out tomato-filled boxes in the video. One kilogramme of the kitchen staple now costs $100 in the country, with wholesale sellers attributing the sharp increase in price to the rain’s impact on produce and transportation logistics. According to market data, tomatoes were trading at 850 cents per quintal on June 23 before rising to 3,000 cents on June 24 and 4,000 cents on June 27.
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In Hyderabad and Koyambedu in Tamil Nadu, tomatoes cost 120 rupees a kilogramme. Green chilies cost between ₹100 and ₹120 per kg, and tomatoes cost 120 per kg. People are not buying vegetables because of the price increase, a fruit and vegetable vendor told ANI. Akhilesh Yadav, the leader of the Samajwadi party and a former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, turned 50 on Saturday. He received birthday wishes from a number of leaders from other parties. UP CM Yogi Adityanath tweeted his congratulations to his predecessor. He said, “Birthday greetings to the National President of Samajwadi Party Mr. Akhilesh Yadav! May Lord Ram bless you with good health.”
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