localpress : Minister shares WhatsApp number for road repair complaints, gets 44,000 marriage proposals instead

Minister shares WhatsApp number for road repair complaints, gets 44,000 marriage proposals instead

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav has reportedly received 44,000 marriage proposals on a WhatsApp contact number which he had provided to the public for complaining about bad roads in the state.Yadav, who is also the state's Public Welfare Department minister, has received 44,000 message from interested brides on the WhatsApp number."Out of 47,000 message received on the number, nearly 44,000 were personal message proposing marriage to Yadav.

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Bihar Deputy CM gets 44,000 marriage proposals on WhatsApp

PATNA: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav has received 44,000 marriage proposals on a WhatsApp contact number which he had provided for complaints over bad roads, officials said.Priya, Anupama, Manisha, Kanchan and Devika are among the 44,000 message senders who had contacted Yadav, also the state's Public Welfare Department minister, at the number."Out of 47,000 message received on the number, nearly 44,000 were personal message proposing marriage to Yadav.Only 3,000 messages were related to road repair," a government official said.He said most of these girls provided personal information including figure statistics, skin colour and heightYadav, 26, cricketer turned politician, is the younger son of RJD chief Lalu Prasad and former Chief Minister Rabri Devi "In fact, the young women mistook the number as Tejaswi's own and sent the personal messages," the official added.In response, Yadav jokingly said that such personal messages could have landed him into deep trouble had he been married.