"Am Vegetarian...How Will I Know?": Union Minister Ashwini Choubey On Onion Crisis

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"Am Vegetarian...How Will I Know?": Union Minister Ashwini Choubey On Onion Crisis

Prices of onions and tomatoes - both kitchen staples for large parts of the country, particularly those belonging to economically weaker sections - have soared in recent weeks and months

All IndiaEdited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan (with inputs from ANI)Updated: December 05, 2019 17:30 IST

 

Ashwini Choubey also defended Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for her remarks on onions

 

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As people across the country grapple with skyrocketing onion prices, the BJP's Ashwini Choubey dismissed the crisis with a laugh, claiming that as a vegetarian he had never tasted onions and did not know anything about the crippling shortage. A Minister of State of Health and Family Welfare, Mr Choubey also defended Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, whose "I don't eat onions" comment was attacked by opposition parties today.

Rising onion prices, with rates threatening to climb as high as Rs 150 per kilogram in Kolkata, have been the cause of much commotion inside and outside parliament. On Tuesday the average selling price in the country was Rs 75 per kilogram; the high was Rs 140 per kilogram in Port Blair.

"I am a vegetarian. I have never tasted an onion. So, how will a person like me know about the situation (market prices) of onions?" Ashwini Choubey said in a video shared by news agency ANI.

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Mr Choubey goes on to defend Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who has come under attack from the opposition for her comment.

"When did she say that (when told of Ms Sitharaman's comment and asked for a response)... she never said that. See Nirmala Sitharman-ji was asked about onions and she gave a good answer about what the government is doing to help people," he claimed.

On Wednesday Ms Sitharaman, interrupted by opposition MPs during a debate on the onion prices, quipped she "doesn't eat onions much" and belongs to a family that has little use for the kitchen staple.

Last month Ashwini Choubey, who has a habit of making bizarre and controversial remarks, allegedly shouted at protesters outside a Bihar hospital. They were agitating against the lack of healthcare facilities in the state's Buxar district.

In September Mr Choubey said former Prime Minister Morarji Desai drank cow urine for medicinal benefits, and, in June, as the Bihar government grappled with a debilitating outbreak of Japanese encephalitis, he slept through a press conference in Muzaffarpur district.

Prices of onions and tomatoes - both kitchen staples for large parts of the country, particularly those belonging to economically weaker sections - have soared in recent weeks and months.

In October, after onion prices hit uncomfortable highs, tomatoes began selling at Rs 80 per kilogram in the national capital.

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[Kool_SRG]

Authentic/Orthodox Vegetarians & brahmins use very less onions in their diet infact some out rightly don't use them... So do Jains.

[bhaigan]

Vellu vella penda mokalu, desam lo 90% non vegetarians untaru bhayya, vegetarins lo kuda oka section of people matrame onions tinaru, ofcouse vellu onions tinadu ani hint isthunaru anuko adi vere vishyam

[afdb002]

Lol aa seetharaman reply veyyi o sari.

errfook di

[Meowalpha]

13 minutes ago, bhaigan said:

Vellu vella penda mokalu, desam lo 90% non vegetarians untaru bhayya, vegetarins lo kuda oka section of people matrame onions tinaru, ofcouse vellu onions tinadu ani hint isthunaru anuko adi vere vishyam

I don't think so

[Idassamed]

20 minutes ago, Kool_SRG said:

Authentic/Orthodox Vegetarians & brahmins use very less onions in their diet infact some out rightly don't use them... So do Jains.

Yup. 

[siru]

37 minutes ago, timmy said:

 

animutyalu only pushpam party can have