Sidhu out on a literacy campaign

After cricket, "Sidhuism" and debating people's issues in Parliament as an MP, Sidhu lends his hand to a literacy campaign.

After hitting sixers on the cricket ground, entertaining lovers of the game with commentary laced with "Sidhuism" and debating people's issues in Parliament as an MP, Navjot Singh Sidhu was in a different avatar today -- lending his hand to a literacy campaign.

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Sidhu, chief guest at the closing ceremony of the first phase of the literacy campaign of Seva Bharati held at Rangpur Pahari slums in Mahipalpur in New Delhi, sought to motivate audience to become literate.

"If you give food to a hungry man, he will be hungry again. If you make one person literate, he will teach many others," he said.

"Our scriptures say that education is like the celestial cow, Kamadhenu. One who receives it is empowered for life. It makes him confident and self-dependent. This is the gift you have received here," Sidhu said.

Seva Bharati working president Brijmohan Sethi said the campaign was started on February one by former Punjab Police chief K P S Gill. He claimed that 10,000 people were made literate in three months since then.

He said his organisation has resolved to wipe out illiteracy from Delhi. "The programme will continue till the aim is achieved."

Sidhu distributed certificates to literate children and adults and also to teachers.