Fatehpur Sikri MP opts

for lottery to select village for adoption

 

Fatehpur Sikri (Agra district)

 

Setting a precedent, the Bhartiya Janata Party Lok Sabha member from Fatehpur Sikri (Mughal emperor Akbar's deserted capital), Choudhary Babu Lal, opted for lottery system to select a village for adoption.

 

Since there were demands from so many villages in the five tehsils of the constituency, the MP not wanting to antagonise any section, zeroed on this novel idea, said officials at the Braj Kshetra office of the party. Important leaders and Gram pradhans from villages which had voted for the BJP were summoned. Five villages each from the five tehsils which met the parameters were selected in the first round. Voting was then held for one village each from the 25 selected. "And in the final round one had to be selected out of the 25." The lucky winner was village Pusenta of Saiyyan block in Kheragarh tehsil.

 

A beaming Choudhary Babu Lal announced the name and immediately informed the central office of the party and the prime minister's office of the choice of the village for development under the PM's Saansad's Adarsh Gram Yojna.

 

Pusenta, 35 km from the Agra city has a population of 4453. Villagers celebrated the choice of their village for development by the MP, hoping the required infrastructural facilities would now be available to them. Gram pradhan of the village Uttam Singh Yadav said "usually politicians do not return after the elections, but now we are hopeful of some change for the better."