Shashi Tharoor nominates Kerala fishermen for Nobel Peace Prize for their role during 2018 floods
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 6 (IBNS): Thiruvananthapuram's Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday said he had nominated the fishermen of Kerala for this year's Nobel Peace Price.
In a letter to Berit Reiss Andersen, chairperson of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, a copy of which he posted on Twitter, Tharoor wrote: "I write to you...to nominate the fishermen of Kerala, collectively, for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, in recognition of their selfless, lifesaving service during the devastating floods that besieged the state of Kerala in August, 2018."
Tharoor explained in the letter how the fishermen, risking their lives and their boats on which their livelihood depended, acted to save their fellow citizens.
The thousands of fishermen had been instrumental in saving around 65,000 people stranded in the floods. At least 488 people were killed in the disaster that had affected 14 districts of Kerala.
My letter to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee nominating the fishermen of Kerala for this year's Peace Prize in recognition of their courageous service & sacrifice during the #KeralaFloods of 2018: pic.twitter.com/xtPLrTnQBT
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) February 6, 2019
"They (the fishermen) represent an outstanding and wholly deserving candidacy," wrote Tharoor.
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