Dear  Gadkari ji! Hats off to your experiments on enriching soil fertility. At an event in Nagpur on Sunday, you said you water plants in your Delhi bungalow with urine that you collect in a 50 litre can. You even recommended the practice to the people to grow "bigger" (and better) plants. You explained that urine is a cheap manure.

Sir, it  is what we the millions of rural Indians have been doing  every morning and evening  in the open fields. It is Modi's government that has banned it under the ‘Swachh Bharat’ scheme. We fail to understand whether to follow your ‘auto urination scheme’ to enrich our fields or follow our idol Modi ji to create ‘Swachh Bharat.’

Ramakrishna Rao Gandikota, Retd Principal MSNC, 5-1-69, Opp 2 Town Police Station,  Kakinada-533001