Patna: With nearly 44,000 marriage proposals flooding his WhatsApp folder in the last three months, Tejaswi Yadav, Bihar’s Deputy Chief Minister and son of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, may have just become one of the most sought after bachelors among politicians.
Yadav, who holds the Road Construction Department (RCD) portfolio, had launched a helpline number – 9470001346, inviting complaints from the public about the condition of roads. He wanted people to send photographs of bad roads so those could be repaired. To his surprise apart from the pictures of bad roads, the 26-year-old received pictures of girls with elaborate details of their physical appearance, including vital statistics and complexion, attached.
The CD officials on conditions of anonymity said that 47,000 odd messages he received, nearly 44,000 were marriage proposals and only around 3000 related to the poor condition of roads. Besides Bihar, the messages poured in from Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, Gujarat and other states, with many girls mentioning personal details like age, gotra, complexion, and annexing their photographs.
However, the girls who made the proposals would be left heartbroken as Tejaswi, the younger of the two sons of Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi, made it clear that he, like an obedient son, would abide by his parents’ decision and go for an arranged marriage.
