Madhya Pradesh Congress has "adopted" the 10-year-old newspaper hawker who gave a newspaper for free to Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, because he had no change.
Yesterday, State Congress Chief Kantilal Bhuria met Kaushal Shakya and his father Dulichand Shakya at the party office and announced, after felicitating the boy, that Congress was "adopting" him. Bhuria said the party would give `1,000 per month to the boy, who had told Rahul that he wanted to become a doctor.
Senior Congress leader Sajid Ali has offered a job to his father, a school drop-out, as a peon at a college run by Ali. Kaushal, a class fifth student, sells newspapers.