For phone signal, MP Minister climbs atop 50 foot high swing
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Published: Monday, February 22, 2021, 10:22 [IST]
Bhopal, Feb 22: A photograph and a video of a Madhya Pradesh minister sitting atop a 50-foot high swing in Ashok Nagar district to get a robust signal on his cellphone network led to a plethora of memes and jokes centred around the government s much-vaunted Digital India thrust.
The photograph of MP Minister of State for Public Health Engineering Brajendra Singh Yadav on the swing in Amkho village was published in newspapers while the video went viral on social media on Sunday.
Image Courtesy: ANI
The village is surrounded by hills and is hosting a Bhagwad Katha (recitation) programme amid a fair that has a 50-foot high swing as one of its attractions, eyewitnesses said.
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MP minister sits on 50-feet swing to get a mobile signal
Even as most regions of the country have been connected with telecom networks, there are still some areas where one doesn t get a mobile signal. One such area is the Surel village in Madhya Pradesh s Ashoknagar district.
Madhya Pradesh s minister of state for health for public health engineering Brajendra Singh Yadav needs to climb up on a 50-feet hammock whenever he wants to talk to officers and fellow ministers.
Yadav is in Surel village of Ashoknagar district these days, participating in a religious ceremony and is committed to spend the next few days here. People are sharing their problems with him but the minister isn t able to convey the same to the officers.
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Yadav told reporters local residents were approaching him with problems but he was not being able to help them due to the poor mobile phone network in the area.