Madurai boy donates Rs 1000 from savings to CMRF; Stalin gifts bicycle in return

Harish, through his father Elangovan, sent Rs 1000 he saved to the Chief Minister’s relief fund with a handwritten note asking Chief Minister M K Stalin to help the people.

Tamil Nadu: Harish donates Rs1000 from savings to CMRF; in return Stalin gifts bicycle

Harish Varman posing on the bike gifted by MK Stalin.

Harish Varman, a Class II student hailing from Arappalayam town in Madurai, was overjoyed to see a brand new bicycle in front of his house on Sunday. He was dreaming of this for a very long time and had saved whatever amount he got to buy a bicycle.

However, after witnessing the surge of the Covid-19, Harish decided to give up his dream for the welfare of society. Harish, through his father Elangovan, sent Rs 1000 he saved to the Chief Minister’s relief fund with a handwritten note asking Chief Minister M K Stalin to help the people.

On Sunday evening, Madurai North MLA K Thalapathy and party functionaries surprised the little boy with a new blue and red coloured bicycle.

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Stalin then spoke to Harish over the phone and congratulated him for his contribution. Stalin then asked him whether he liked the cycle and an over-joyed Harish said yes with a beaming smile.

The DMK president then asked Harish to stay safe in the pandemic period and told him to study well.

Harish as well his parents Geetha and Elangovan too were happy to receive the call from the Chief Minister.

Janardhan Koushik

Janardhan Koushik is Deputy Copy Editor of indianexpress.com. He is a New Media journalist with over five years of reporting experience in the industry. He has a keen interest in politics, sports, films, and other civic issues. Janardhan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication from SRM Arts and Science College and a PG Diploma in New Media from Asian College of Journalism, one of the top ranked journalism schools in India. He started his career with India Today group as a sub-editor as part of the sports team in 2016. He has also a wide experience as a script-writer having worked for short-films, pilot films as well as a radio jockey cum show producer while contributing for an online Tamil FM. As a multilingual journalist, he actively tracks the latest development in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry utiling his well-established networks to contribute significantly to breaking news stories. He has also worked as a sports analyst for Star Sports. ... Read More

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