Chance encounter with former MLA stumps auto driver
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An aged man anxiously strolling on a highway with an previous shoe in his hand, having misplaced the opposite pair, caught the attention of N.D. Pandi, an autorickshaw driver. The man regarded acquainted to Mr. Pandi.
Taking a better look, Mr. Pandi, 30, was shocked to search out out that the person was none apart from N. Nanmaran, a two-time former MLA from the Communist Party of India (Marxist). The driver made an instantaneous U-turn on Panagal Road right here and stopped the auto. By then, Mr. Nanmaran had picked up the opposite shoe. It had fallen off his ft whereas he was travelling in one other autorickshaw.
The former MLA from the Madurai East Assembly constituency requested Mr. Pandi if he might drop him at Karuppayoorani. Mr. Nanmaran informed him that he solely had ₹20 and couldn’t pay extra. “I said okay to him and took him in my auto,” Mr. Pandi mentioned.
“Till the moment he got down from my vehicle, he did not identify himself as a former MLA,” Mr. Pandi added.
Impressed with his simplicity, the driver didn’t take the cash provided to him. “I told him that I was proud to have been given an opportunity to help him. I asked him to keep the money for his return journey,” he mentioned. The incident occurred on November 27. It got here to mild on Wednesday when Mr. Pandi shared a photograph he had taken with Mr. Nanmaran on Facebook. The picture, with a small write-up of the incident, has gone viral on social media.
“Ideologically, I am on the other side,” mentioned Mr. Pandi, who can also be an office-bearer with the youth wing of the Pasumpon Desiya Kazhagam. “But I liked him for his simplicity, honesty and humaneness,” he added.
“When even ward secretaries from various political parties are travelling in swanky SUVs, it was really heartening to see such a former MLA,” he mentioned.
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