Socialist Party (India)

Salman Raini, Lucknow District President of Socialist Party (India)

Salman Raini (Ph: 9335281976, 9198379619), Lucknow District President of Socialist Party (India) and General Secretary of ‘Young Farmers Traders Fruits and Vegetables Business Association,’ Dubagga, Lucknow is spearheading relief efforts in Lucknow during lockdown in the wake of coronavirus threat.

His team is reaching out to daily wage workers, homeless on streets and in shelter homes and patients or their caretakers outside hospitals and delivering food to them. Being an office-bearer of the fruits and vegetables mandi association he has got a curfew pass to move around. Yesterday, flour and vegetables were delivered to Md. Ismail, a mason from Sultanpur stuck in Lucknow with 3 other family members living in a temporary shelter in Nishatganj and pulses, oil, etc. were provided at a shelter home for homeless in Aishbagh with 12 inmates run by our colleague Sharad Patel.

If you are interested in contributing to these relief efforts you may do so in the following ways:

(1) Make a financial contribution to the bank account: Raini Fruit Company, A/c no.: 104705002387, IFSC: ICIC0001047

(2) Provide raw food items or cooked food packets or even rotis. If you give a call on the number of Salman Raini or Abhyudaya Pratap Singh, 9559156946, somebody will pick it up from your place.

(3) Deliver any relief items to our office in Guframab Imambada Road, Tarkari Mandi, Chowk, Lucknow, opposite Mukhtare Halwai. Contact numbers: Salman Raini, 9335281976, 9198379619, Abhyudaya Pratap Singh, 9559156946, or Mohammad Ahmed, 9335133390, 7007918600.

(4) You could volunteer to make packets for distribution or cook food and deliver to needy people if required. Contact abovementioned activists to find out the requirement at that time.

Given below are the details of the amount received and expenditure incurred till 26/3/20.

Donations:

25/3/20, Rahul Pandey, Rs. 10,000

25/3/20, Surabhi Agarwal, Rs. 8,000

25/3/20, Sumeet Agarwal, Rs. 3,000

26/3/20, Divya, Rs. 30,000

26/3/20, Ashok Gulati, Rs. 500

Expenses:

22/3/20 to 24/3/20, Biscuits and water bottles, Rs. 2,700

26/3/20, Flour, 250 kg, Rs. 8,700 (had to be bought in black at the rate of Rs. 34 per kg)

26/3/20, Potato, 100 kg, Rs. 2,700

26/3/20, Onion, 50 kg, Rs. 700 (at a concessional rate)