BENGALURU: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said on Thursday that he knows the pain of hunger and the value of food, and therefore had introduced the Anna Bhagya scheme
He was speaking after inaugurating the World Food Day programme organised by the Department of Food and Civil Supplies at the Banquet Hall in Vidhana Soudha, Bengaluru.
“I know the suffering of hunger and the value of food. That is why I introduced the Anna Bhagya scheme...Famous Kannada poet D.R. Bendre called farmers ‘Anna Brahma (God of Food)'. Hence, wasting or throwing away food is an insult to Anna Brahma, ” he said.