Rajkot: A man repairing punctures in Bagsara town of Amreli district became the president of the municipality of his town on Monday. Paresh alias Indukumar Khimsuriya (25) also went on to become the youngest president of the municipality.
Khimsuriya has been running the tyre puncture shop since years. He said, βI had decided since my childhood that I will become the municipality president one day and that dream has eventually come true.β Khimsuriya won the election on a BJP ticket.
Ever since he got the ticket he started a campaign pedalling through his constituency and he started making punctures in the vehicles of his voters. He carried tyres on his shoulders and appealed to people to vote for him because they had seen him make punctures since years and he was approachable to everybody.
Khimsuriya had become the talking point among voters because of his unique way of campaigning. His appeal worked and he won the election from ward two. Rashid Otha, a minority community leader in Bagsara said βHe is the youngest president of municipality and looking to his enthusiasm we believe that he will work hard to serve the people and do development work. This is true democracy where a poor man can become the president of municipality.β