MP Minister washes feet of person to apologise for bad condition of road

Gwalior: In a bid to apologise for the bad condition of a road in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior, Energy Minister Pradhuman Singh Tomar on Monday washed the feet of a person. Talking to the news agency ANI, the  minister said, "I apologised to people for the bad condition of the road & promised to repair the road which was dug for a sewer line work."

Tomar made headlines in December after he was offered a pair of slippers by Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia. The minister had pledged to stay barefoot over demand for road construction and got to wear slippers three months later. He was walking barefoot over the bad condition of roads in Gwalior.

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Tomar tweeted a video where Civil Aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia can be seen offering him a pair of slippers.

Madhya Pradesh Min Pradhuman Singh washed the feet of a person as the minister apologised for the bad condition of road in Gwalior

I apologised to people for the bad condition of the road & promised to repair the road which was dug for a sewer line work, said the minister (16.1) pic.twitter.com/nK8MzZBBto — ANI MP/CG/Rajasthan (@ANI_MP_CG_RJ) January 17, 2023

Pradhuman Singh Tomar is a BJP MLA from Gwalior. He had received complaints regarding bad roads in October this year from locals and had then vowed to stay barefoot until the construction of roads. 

(With ANI inputs)