‘Yamraj’ takes a jeep tour of Fala

Nimesh Khakhariya | TNN | Apr 4, 2020, 04:00 IST

Sarpanch moving around in Fala village dressed up as Yamraj

Rajkot: Yamraj is busy these days. Sitting on the bonnet of a jeep, he’s been visiting Fala, a hamlet 26km away from Jamnagar on the Rajkot-Jamnagar highway, preaching hygiene and scaring people of his newly appointed angels “corona” who he has given the task to take away ‘bad’ humans who violate the lockdown rules.
For the 6,000-odd population of this village, this is a primitive attempt at humour for its drone-camera using high-tech villagers, but they are taking Sarpanch Kamlesh Dhamsania’s attempt to tickle them with a clip from 1990s popular Kadar Khan starrer Taqdeerwala’s dialogue, “Yam hai hum!”
The village Panchayat tried to send out the ‘stay at home’ message in an innovative way which will also provide them entertainment too, said Sarpanch Dhamsania. “I have seen on the television how police are singing patriotic songs to entertain people locked up inside their homes. I also decided to do something innovative and therefore came up with this idea to pass the information about the spread of coronavirus and also try not to panic them,” he added.
Thus, Yam sits on the bonnet and with the traditional demonic laughter addresses the people talking to them about Karma and how bad karma like violating lockdown rules will incur Yamraj’s wrath, who will send his angels named corona to infect them and they will all go to “hell”.