Madhya Pradesh Congress has “adopted” a 10-year-old newspaper hawker who gave a newspaper for free to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, because he had no change.
On Saturday, state Congress chief Kantilal Bhuria met Kaushal Shakya and his father Dulichand Shakya at the party office here and announced, after felicitating the boy, that the Congress was “adopting” him.
Bhuria said the party would give Rs 1,000 per month to the boy, who had told Rahul that he wanted to become a doctor.
Senior Congress leader Sajid Ali has offered a job to his father. Kaushal, a class 5 student, sells newspapers. On April 25, when Rahul was heading for Raja Bhoj airport in a car, Kaushal approached him and requested him to buy a newspaper. Rahul took the newspaper and handed him a Rs 1,000 note, but the boy returned it, saying he had no change, and he was offering the copy for free.
Published 12 May 2013, 21:10 IST