Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav has received 44,000 marriage proposals on a WhatsApp contact number he had provided for complaints over bad roads, officials said.
“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 height.
Yadav, 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.
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