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     Basky_indya Hero Username: Basky_indya Post Number: 13818 Registered: 10-2007 Posted From: 65.30.78.134 Rating: N/A |
and he MADE HATTRICK . just won the seat by 192 votes majority in 2008  mY Telugu Divine www.gurugeetha.blogspot.com | ||
| Basky_indya Hero Username: Basky_indya Post Number: 13817 Registered: 10-2007 Posted From: 65.30.78.134 Rating: N/A |
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:53 [IST] Raipur: An illiterate Gond tribal candidate from naxal-hit Dantewada district is making a determined effort to score a hat-trick in Chhattisgarh Assembly polls. The 45-year-old Kawasi Lakhma, two-time Congress MLA from the ST reserved Konta assembly segment bordering Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, does not know how to write his name. He never wore pant-shirt and learnt to wear dhoti-kurta for the first time only when he became a Sarpanch as he preferred roaming around in a lungi . Even today he takes others help in writing applications to the government. "As nobody in my village is educated, I prefer to get the applications written by the school teachers. Earlier I had an assistant but not now," Lakhma admits. He, however, claims "despite being illiterate, I got rules changed in the state including the one related to re-introduction of the contract system in Tendu leaves." Residents talk about an episode related to his father when Lakhma was contesting the first assembly election in the undivided Madhya Pradesh in 1998, of which Konta assembly segment was a part. Narrating the incident Lakhma says, "My father Hadma went to the election booth and voted on the lotus symbol (BJP). Back home he said that he did it because the flower was looking nice. He had no idea that I was contesting and he should vote for me. That was the first time, my father had caste his vote." He says his mother died without ever casting her vote. "My three brothers still do not go to vote for me even as the entire village now campaigns in my favour during the election. My wife, too, has no idea of politics," Lakhma admits. } mY Telugu Divine www.gurugeetha.blogspot.com |
