Jaipur, April 11: When Anna Hazare on Saturday at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi was announcing the “victory” of the people against corruption, he was not aware that far away at a remote village in Rajasthan, a tribal couple had named their newly born boy after him, in a tribute to him.
Kailash Gavaria of Motipura, a village in interior Ajmer, rushed his wife Sunita, who was expecting, to a Government hospital at Pushkar on Wednesday. Like many other ill-run Government hospitals, there were no doctors or sufficient paramedical staff to take care of the delivery.
He was advised to take his wife to Ajmer. The couple then landed in Adarsh Nagar Satellite Hospital. But things were not as rosy as they had expected. After the usual hassles that are associated with a Government hospital, she was finally admitted and soon gave birth to a healthy baby boy on Tuesday.
It brought smiles on the faces of the couple. “It was initially really a frustrating experience. As newspapers and TV channels were flooded with the news of struggle against corruption by Anna Hazare, my younger brother and I felt the country needed more Anna Hazares to fight the corrupt system. So we decided to name our son Anna,” Kailash said.
Though Sunita accepted the wish of her husband to name their son Anna, she was not aware of who Anna was. “No one of this name ever came to our village to seek votes but my husband says he is a great man fighting against corruption,” she remarked.
“We welcome the naming and wish the family luck,” Harbans Singh Dua, senior gynecologist at the hospital who supervised the delivery, said.
–Agencies–