Bhopal: The house of a tribal in a nondescript village under Bhopal district in Madhya Pradesh on Sunday shot into limelight for both the right and wrong reasons.
Kamal Singh Uike, a BJP worker, proudly hosted lunch for his party’s national president Amit Shah and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in his dilapidated house in the village of Sebaniya Gaund on the outskirt of Bhopal in the afternoon.
However, his house got media attention more for lack of toilet facility than hosting lunch for the famous guests.
Mr Uike who personally served tribal delicacies including rice, dal, baigan bharta (boiled brinjal paste), kadhi ( a local dish) and ‘sira’ (a sweet made by tribals) to his ‘eminent’ guests, later confessed before the media that he is still waiting for the sanction by the local administration to build toilet in his house.
“I have applied to the authorities concerned for grant of funds to construct a toilet in my house six months ago. But, my application is still pending for clearance since then. All my family members including my wife, mother and my children have been forced to go for defecation in the open,” Mr Uike, a daily wage earner, told reporters visiting his house on the occasion.
Incidentally, Bhopal district has been declared open defecation free (ODF) six months ago.
