Centre brought cheetahs to spread lumpy skin disease, hurt farmers: Nana Patole

Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole on Monday resorted to giving bizarre reasons to allegedly target the Bharatiya Janata party BJP saying that the Centre deliberately brought cheetahs from Nigeria to spread Lumpy Skin Disease LSD to take revenge from farmers for rolling back the farm lawsThis lumpy virus has been prevailing in Nigeria for a long time and the Cheetahs have also been brought from there The central government has deliberately done this for the losses of farmers said the Maharashtra Congress chiefPatole blamed the Centre for the spread of Lumpy Skin Disease and said Sonia Gandhi must give Nobel Award to Patole for his statementTalking to ANI on phone Nana Patole said PM has never spoken to the farmers during the black laws farm laws which they rolled back and by bringing cheetahs from Namibia they are taking the revenge The lumpy virus came in India after cheetahs were brought from Namibia on PM Modis birthdayI have not seen such disease in my 55 years and not my ancestors it is purposely brought so that these farmers will face losses one can make out the spot on cheetahs brought in India and the spot of lumpy on the cows are same this disease already existed in Namibia and now its spreading in India he addedCountering Patole a BJP Leader and Cabinet Minister talking to ANI said This is a laughable statement from Doctor Patole he from his statement has made this disease as a nonserious issueUnder the leadership of PM Modi arrangements have been made for the cows to get vaccinatedAlso Read Security tightened in Mumbai ahead of Dussehra rallies by Shiv Sena factionsMangal Prabhat Lodha also added if Sonia ji wants she can give her Nobel prize from Congress sideLumpy Skin Disease has severely affected dairy farmers in IndiaThe virus has been found only in cows and buffaloes There is no danger to humans in eating meat or using milk of animals that do not have the symptoms of Lumpy Animals can be cured from Lumpy however the milk of such animals may get affected due to the virusAs per reports lumpy skin disease is a viral disease that affects cattle It is transmitted by bloodfeeding insects such as certain species of flies and mosquitoes or ticks It causes fever and nodules on the skin and can lead to the death of the cattleMeanwhile providing relief to the livestock of the country Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar on August 10 launched the indigenous vaccine LumpiProVac to protect livestock from Lumpy skin diseaseNotably eight cheetahs 5 females and 3 males were brought from Namibia as part of Project Cheetah as part of the governments efforts to revitalise and diversify the countrys wildlife and habitatCheetahs brought from Namibia were introduced in India under Project Cheetah which is the worlds first intercontinental large wild carnivore translocation projectThe cheetah was declared extinct in India in 1952 and have been brought under an MoU signed earlier this yearThe historic reintroduction of Cheetahs in India is part of a long series of measures for ensuring sustainability and environment protection in the last eight years which has resulted in significant achievements in the area of environment protection and sustainabilityThe coverage of Protected Areas which was 490 per cent of the countrys geographical area in 2014 has now increased to 503 per centThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever