62-yr-old BJP MLA pursues commencement on daughters’ demand

Image Source : TWITTER/@PHOOLSMEENA 62-yr-old BJP MLA pursues commencement on daughters’ demand
Pushed by his daughters to pursue training, Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Phool Singh Meena, now 62, will lastly accomplish his dream to be a BA go MLA. Initially, a faculty dropout, he needed to take up farming after his father’s demise. Officially, he was seventh go however he someway managed all his day-to-day chores in private {and professional} life. However, his life modified when his 5 daughters made him realise the value of training and impressed him to proceed, explaining to him the truth that training has no age restrict.
Abiding by their name, Meena Tuesday took his first examination of BA last within the political science stream in Udaipur from the Vardhman Mahaveer Open University.
Speaking to IANS, he mentioned, “I needed to drop out from college after Class 7 as my father handed away and there have been many challenges within the household. I obtained into farming to earn a livelihood for my household.
“When I saw, it was not earning me significant returns, I went to Udaipur and started working in supplying labour to private factories. Then I entered politics and there was no looking back,” he says.
“One wonderful day, my daughters, 5 in quantity, gheraoed me and requested me about my qualification.
“I requested them what was responsible for this query they usually mentioned they needed to listen to the fitting reply from my mouth. As I mentioned I’m seventh class go, they mentioned, ‘Aren’t you ashamed of it? How do you carry your self amongst individuals, college students and senior leaders?

“Their words were a real inspiration for me. Soon they brought me an application form and insisted me to fill it to crack the Class 10 exam. The form was submitted and I appeared for the exam in 2013. It was election time and I got the ticket so I could not clear two exams which I re-appeared and cleared in 2015. They gave me points so that I can learn from my chapters well,” he added.
“Then I cleared my Class 12 examination in 2016-17. Finally, I used to be assured and there was no stopping me as I continued my research for BA in 2018-19 for the primary 12 months, 2019-20 for the second 12 months and 2020-2021 for the third 12 months.
“Education is important along with politics and hence I started studying again after 40 years. After BA, I am aiming at completing my Ph.D. too,” he mentioned.
Meena is serving his second time period as MLA from the Godaoli village, Jahajpur tehsil from Bhilwara district.
He says his daughters enlightened him concerning the worth of training in a single’s life and therefore desires all daughters of his constituency to unfold wings.
In 2015, quickly after changing into MLA, he made an announcement that women finding out within the authorities colleges securing 80 per cent and above marks might be given an opportunity for air journey. “The policy was implemented in 2016 and many girls of our constituency have travelled via air and around 35 girls are waiting now for their term due to the Covid challenge,” he mentioned. 

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