In a one-of-a-kind request, a 34-year-old bachelor from Akola district in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra has shot off an emotional letter to the NCP (SP) Chief Sharad Pawar, urging him to “play cupid” and help find a bride for him. The letter, written by an unmarried man from the farmers’ suicide-hit belt of Vidarbha region, surfaced from a pile of letters and memorandums handed over to the 84-year-old Pawar at a public meeting, when he visited Akola on November 8.
“I am already 34. I am growing old. I fear that I may never get married. I am suffering from loneliness. Please consider my plea and help me find a life partner.
I promise to work hard and be a good husband. You will give me life in the form of a wife. I will be indebted to you,” Mangesh Ingale wrote to Pawar. A Bachelor in Arts who is now pursuing his MA, Ingale lives in a modest home with his two brothers and a sister. He has shared his full contact details in his letter to the NCP (SP) chief. Ingale, who currently works as a Swiggy delivery partner, stated in his letter that he had no demands or conditions. “I can marry a girl of any caste. If needed, I am ready to live at her house as a house-husband and do all domestic chores. I want companionship,” he said in his letter, which has gone viral on social media. Confirming the development, senior NCP (SP) leader and former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said: “The letter shows the faith the kind of faith that people have in Pawar saheb. It was found in a bunch of representations made to Pawar during his recent visit to Akola.
The 34-year-old man has Pawar saheb’s help to find a bride. This is a social issue and the agrarian distress that Maharashtra is going through”.
“We have been instructed by our superiors in the party to help him. We will begin searching for a suitable bride for Ingale and take full responsibility to settle his life,” NCP (SP)’s Akola district president Sangram said. Dwelling upon the “bride shortage” in agrarian crisis-hit Vidarbha region, farmer leader and Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti’s founder Kishor Tiwari said: “I am not surprised by the plight of the man who has petitioned Pawar for help to find a bride. The problem stems from multiple factors like recurring drought, declining rural incomes, economic distress and the falling ratio of marriageable girls.
