17 October,2024 09:34 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Rujuta Diwekar
Celebrity nutritionist Rujuta Diwekar on Thursday revealed key areas that she expects to be addressed in the upcoming Maharashtra assembly election 2024. These include common health and food-related issues.
Taking to her X account, she wrote, "As a voter, I would like polls to be about: clean air (not smog guns), mass transportation (not cars), footpaths for walking, breakfast in anganwadi (along with midday meal), subsidies for native crops, better work conditions for sanitation workers."
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This demand for clean air comes at a time when Mumbai's air quality is undergoing a dip. The AQI is further expected to go down during Diwali. Earlier this month, Diwekar had taken to X to highlight the harms of poor air quality.
"Eat as clean as you want, exercise as hard as you can, maintain a good sleep hygiene but bear in mind that poor air quality will kill us all," she wrote.
The Mumbai-based nutritionist is often vocal on her social media, sharing her opinions on important issues and matters of day-to-day life.
About Rujuta Diwekar
Rujuta Diwekar is a Mumbai-based nutritionist, fitness and wellness expert, and author. She has worked with celebrities like Kareena Kapoor, Karisma Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Anupam Kher and Richa Chadda. She has authored several books on eating right and busting food myths.
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About Maharashtra Assembly Election 2024
The Maharashtra Assembly election 2024 will be held in a single phase and voting will take place on November 20, while the counting will be held three days later and the results will be announced on November 23. The term of Maharashtra Assembly's will end on November 26. The key contenders in the Maharashtra Assembly elections 2024 are the ruling Mahayuti Alliance comprising the BJP, CM Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, and the Ajit Pawar-led NCP and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition which includes the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT), Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) and The Congress.
