A video of a woman vegetable seller speaking fluently in English while protesting against the municipal authorities in Indore is doing rounds on social media. The woman, Raisa Ansari, claims that she holds a PhD (Doctor Of Philosophy) in Material Science from Indore’s Devi Ahilya University.
She said that the municipal corporation removed her pushcart which she used to sell vegetables. Speaking in fluent English, she said that vegetable vendors were being harassed by municipal officers.
A Twitter user @Howzzda_Josh tweeted the video saying, “Nowadays uneducated people are joining politics & educated ones R selling fruits & vegetables. Indore’s “PhD” Vegetable Seller’s Protest In English goes Viral !!”
When asked about her education, she said she had been a research scholar.
In a viral video, she says that the repeated curbs at Indore’s markets because of the coronavirus pandemic have left the fruit and vegetable sellers penniless.
“At times, one side of the market is closed, the second one is shut by the administration; and there are hardly any buyers. What we are supposed to feed our families. I am selling fruits and vegetables here. People standing here are my family and friends. There are more than 20 members in the family. How will they survive? How they will earn? There is no rush on the stall but still, these officials keep telling us to run away,” she says.
