In an attempt to grill the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) in context of their lousiness to clean up piles of rubbish, a resident of the Indira Nagar locality in Lucknow, set up a portable barbeque using garbage as fuel, outside his house. Ashutosh Singh, 32, was caught on camera by a passerby, protesting against the mounds of garbage that had not been removed despite pleas to the local municipal body.
Grill comin’ out hot!
Ashutosh served grilled cottage cheese and vegetables along with tea to friends during his duration of the protest, which went up to 3 hours on Thursday afternoon. Singh was quoted saying, “People here throw garbage in open because door-to-door garbage collection is very poor here. We wake up every day only to see garbage piles all around and are forced to bear the stench. Our complaints to the municipal officials have failed to elicit any response.” The locals here were in support of this ‘serial griller’ and said that there would be more such ‘unusual ‘protests’ if the area was not made free of filth.
Lucknow had witnessed a similar protest in November 2020 when a college pupil, literally and figuratively, stood his ground at a garbage dump near City Station all day. Authorities got into action promptly after his video went viral. Meanwhile, a zonal municipal official, Vidya Sagar Yadav stated that the authorities will take action against the private agency, which has been hired to ensure household garbage collection in the area. Yadav further added that the litter will be cleaned up within two days.
