New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Chhotelal Verma's shoes went missing while he was inaugurating a fair in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra city on Friday. The MLA from Fatehabad Assembly constituency later walked barefoot back to his car from the temple.
Responding to a poser about the incident, Verma said that some poor man must have taken his shoes, adding he wished Mata Sati to do good to him and keep him happy, reported news agency ANI.
According to news reports, he was in the village to inaugurate a Mata Sati fair. He took off his shoes outside the temple and had gone to the sanctum sanctorum of the temple to offer prayers but when he returned he found that his shoes were missing. This caused a stir and everyone started searching for them only to realise that somebody took his shoes. Then Chhote Lal Verma decided to walk barefoot towards his car.
MLA Chhotelal Verma and former MLA Dr. Rajendra Singh had reached the fair at around 3 pm to inaugurate the two-day fair to be held at the Sati temple of the village on Thursday, reports say.
However, while sitting in the car, the minister said that taking his shoes would only benefit the poor. The video of this statement of the minister is going viral on social media.
"Some poor man might have worn my shoes. I wish Mata Sati to do good to that poor man and keep him happy," he said.