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WATCH: In Demonetised, Cash-strapped India, Gujarat Folk Singers Get Showered With Rs 40 Lakh!

IANS, 28 Dec, 2016 02:42 AM
    Shared by news network ANI, the short clip shows people generously showering Rs 10 and Rs 20 notes on a folk singer. And, though, that wouldn’t raise as many eyebrows, the fact that the amount showered is estimated to be around Rs 40 lakh!
     
    The event was apparently organised by the Shri Gurjar Kshatriya Kadia Samaj on Sunday (December 25). The organisers apparently claimed that the money collected during the program will be used for social work.
     
    Earlier, new Rs 2000 notes were showered on folk singer Kirtidan Gadhvi in the Palanpur area of Gujarat’s Banaskantha district. The event was organised by the Mukteshwar Mahadev Temple.
     
    Soon after the video was shared on Twitter, people started expressing their outrage at the practice, while others said it was nothing new. Some even saw the possiblity of a career change, as one tweet read: “I m trying to listen carefully the song. Planning to leave the job n start singing same song. what a shower of currency notes !”

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