Video of Pigs Licking Plates Meant For Serving Food to Rajasthan’s Poor Goes Viral

A captive-bred pygmy hog, an endangered species and the world’s rarest and smallest wild pigs, comes out of a temporary enclosure during its release along with three other pygmy hogs into the wild at Manas National Park, some 146 km from Guwahati on June 26, 2021.Rahul Trivedi Rajasthan state chief Ashok Gehlot introduced “Indira Rasoi Yojana” (a food scheme dedicated to the late PM and Congress leader Indira Gandhi) in 2020 to provide food to needy people in the state at a nominal price. As per the scheme, a person only has to pay INR 8 ($0.096), while INR 17 ($0.20) is paid by the state government.The Congress-led state government in India’s Rajasthan is in hot water after a video of pigs licking utensils meant to serve food under a government scheme went viral on social media.The video, posted by several media outlets, shows pigs licking plates in front of MSJ College in the city of Bharatpur.According to media reports, the kitchen, meant for serving food under the government scheme, was operated by an institution named “Mother Teresa.”Soon after the footage went viral, the state opposition party the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hit out at the Congress government. BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said it is not only unhygienic and disgusting, but humiliating too.