Now, Akhilesh adopts village of DeMo baby Khajanchi
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav has adopted the village of his favourite ‘anti-demonetisation mascot’ Khajanchi, a boy who was born in a bank queue on December 2 last year.
The party said Akhilesh had decided to adopt the village and make it ‘Samajwadi Vikas Gaon’.
As the boy was born in a bank queue, the manager named the boy Khajanchi which in English means treasurer.
At the time of the child’s birth, Akhilesh was the chief minister of UP. Taking a stand against demonetisation, he gave Rs 1 lakh to the boy from the CM’s fund.
Akhilesh had taken Khajanchi’s name in all the rallies that he held ahead of the 2017 UP assembly election to describe how people suffered because of demonetisation. On the first anniversary of demonetisation on November 8, Akhilesh had sent Rs 10,000 to the family ahead of Khajanchi’s first birthday.
On Sunday, he met the boy in Saifai as he got the entire family fetched to Saifai from their Kanpur Dehat village.
Akhilesh posted a picture of Khajanchi in his arms on Twitter. In the caption, he hit out at demonetisation and wrote: “Khajanchi, who was born in a bank queue, is a year old now, but his family’s bank account is still empty. The family today stands in the queue of false hope of black money finding its way into their bank accounts as promised then. These simple people do not know what is political rhetoric.”