Muhammed from Vidyanagar offers an orange to Kerala CM Pinarayi, who was in Kasaragod to inaugurate the block office at Kadarukka. Photo: Rahul R PattomKasaragod: The man in the wrinkled shirt and dirty mundu was not ready for the limelight. He was just another face in the crowd waiting for chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan visiting Kasaragod.
Muhammed from Vidyanagar attracted no eyeballs amid the crowd formed around the block office at Kadarukka. He seemed like a common man who wanted to draw the chief minister’s attention to some personal problem.
He waited patiently as the police escorted the chief minister to the dais. After Pinarayi inaugurated the block office, delivered a short speech and left the dais, Muhammed stepped forward. He took something out of a cloth bag he was carrying. It was an orange!
He handed out the orange to the chief minister. Pinarayi smiled at Muhammed and passed on the gift to his escort. Muhammed was happy, Pinarayi was happy and the security personnel was happy.
Muhammed also gifted an orange to revenue minister E Chandreasekharan, who was accompanying Pinarayi. He later said that it was his way of expressing his affection to the leaders and he had gifted oranges to many other leaders.
He left as unassumingly as he came.
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