Mar 25 2015 : Mirror (Bangalore)

Maneka bats for cow urine to clean floor

NEW DELHI PTI

Mar 25 2015 : Mirror (Bangalore)

Maneka bats for cow urine to clean floor

NEW DELHI

PTI

A surface cleaner made from extracts of cow urine should be used in government offices instead of “chemically bad“ phenyl, union minister Maneka Gandhi has urged her colleagues in the council of ministers.

Gandhi has requested ministers to switch over to `Gaunyle' -cleaning liquid made from cow urine extracts, arguing that it “environmentfriendly“. “I would request you to replace phenyl, which is currently being used in your ministry and is chemically bad for environment, with Gaunyle,“ she said in the letter sent earlier this month.

Gandhi said the Kendriya Bhandar is now stocking the `Gaunyle'.

Phenyl is the cheap cleaning liquid which is widely used in government offices to clean floor and toilets. Gaunyle is being marketed by an NGO, Holy Cow Foundation. It is said to be environment friendly as it does not have a synthetic base like phenyl but is not as strong as the latter.

MY TAKE on this NEWS REPORT in the BANGALORE MIRROR, dated March 25, 2015

                          

                        FEW years back, a BIG HUE AND CRY was made when it appeared that Hema Malini  had RAISED QUESTIONS in RAJYA SABHA  over IMPLEMENTING a SCHEME for INSTALLATION of WATER PURIFIERS in Government Establishments since she was also simultaneously  ADVERTISING for a BRAND of WATER PURIFIERS then ( and she is still continuing to do so!), and then there was an accusation of a CONFLICT of INTEREST against her!

                       

                    Now we see that Maneka Gandhi, being a Minister, is openly ENDORSING a PRODUCT "Gaunyle," ( Purportedly a Floor Cleansing Agent made out of, hold your breath, - COW'S URINE and being marketed by an NGO, Holy Cow Foundation !)? Is there going to be a "SIMILAR HUE and CRY" over a CONFLICT of INTEREST on the PART of MANEKA GANDHI too like it was in the case of Hema Malini ( as mentioned above)?

                       

              However One is left wondering whether Madam Minister is FOLLOWING  a DIKTAT from ORGANISATION that treats COWS to be more IMPORTANT than HUMAN BEINGS or it is is her own INITIATIVE? But in either CASE, it appears that there  is a QUESTION of CONFLICT of INTEREST here?!

                          

Few Yrs BACK HEMA ws Hauled fr MKTNG water Purifier!MANEKA endorsing COWURINE? 

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