CM to auction gifts

CHIEF MINISTER Shivraj Singh Chouhan today announced that the gifts he received would be auctioned to gather funds for poverty-alleviation schemes.

CHIEF MINISTER Shivraj Singh Chouhan today announced that the gifts he received would be auctioned to gather funds for poverty-alleviation schemes.

“The process will get underway six months later. I am a ‘kisan ka beta’ (son of a farmer) and by virtue of that fact I know better the problems of the poor and peasants,” he said while addressing a public meeting at this township in Vidisha district.

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Among those present were state Public Relations Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of State for Culture Lakshmikant Sharma, Public Health Engineering Minister Rampal Singh and several other people’s representatives.