Polls will come and go, but harsh figures about our children will continue to rankle | The Indian Express

Polls will come and go, but harsh figures about our children will continue to rankle | The Indian Express

Written by Neerja Chowdhury |Updated: March 16, 2019 8:59:23 am

The writer is a senior journalist

Polls will come and go, but harsh figures about our children will continue to rankle

New report gives constituency-wise data for malnutrition. High-profile MPs have not paid attention to a grave issue in their backyard.

As poll talk generates heat, a report has put out cold figures about child malnutrition in India’s 543 Lok Sabha constituencies. (Representational Image)

As things stand, 2019 is likely to be an election driven by emotion. As Narendra Modihit out at the Opposition that they were trying to “finish Modi” while he wanted to finish “terrorism, poverty and malnutrition”, it is probably the first time that a prime minister had put combating malnutrition amongst his top three priorities, and that too as an election promise.