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A group of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA), who are protesting at the Kerala Secretariat, requested actors Mohanlal, Mammootty, and Kamal Haasan not to take part in the state government’s official event to declare Kerala as an ‘extreme poverty free’ state on November 1.

In an open letter, the workers state that the 26,125 ASHAs who survive on Rs 233 a day are among the extremely poor. “Kerala cannot be called free from extreme poverty while we continue to live in misery,” the letter says. By participating in the event, the actors will unintentionally become part of promoting that falsehood, the letter says. “Therefore, with love and respect, we, the impoverished ASHA workers of Kerala, humbly request you to withdraw from t

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