‘Tambakhu Mukhta Party
On New Year’s Eve, Mumbai’s young citizens cast votes against tobacco Children drive home anti-tobacco message via mock polling campaign, complete with dummy political party and polling booth In keeping with the spirit of ringing in the New Year with hopes, goals and resolutions, school children associated with NGO Salaam Bombay Foundation (SBF), staged a mock election drive resolving to strive for a Tobacco-free world in 2014. Building on the election mood in the country, the school children were seen dressed as party workers of a make-believe political party fighting for the rights of children to live in a tobacco-free world. Calling themselves the ‘Tambakhu Mukhta Party’ , the children went about urging people to cast their vote against tobacco at a mock polling booth set up for the purpose, at Colaba Municipal School. Little children were seen wearing white ‘Gandhi topis ’ with the slogan ‘Mai Tambakhu Mukhta Hoon’ and queuing up ...