Ramesh Gupta’ life story continues

So, R.N. Mittal, one of the associates in the party, introduced me to Bimla Nagar. I was her Chief Election Agent and she contested elections from the Delhi Cantonment and Moti Bagh came under this constituency. In the entire city, only one candidate was from Congress and that was her. It was because of my clout in the area as people were close to me.

The entire period is a good trip down memory lane.
I was married in the year 1977. Before my marriage, I was given a case of Ms. Indira Bansal in Parliament street. It was a murder case which got buried however, I applied for the bill of the case which was around 420 rupees. Just one week before my marriage, I got a letter saying that the money has been sanctioned. I used the money in my marriage and everything happened with utmost ease.

When my eldest son was born in 1978, we had a big celebration back at our house in Moti Bagh. My father said that celebration is needed as he was the first child in the family who was born after a long time. I vividly remember that chat papdi and dahi bhalle were brought from Purani Delhi with each plate costing 13 Rupees for 300 people. It was a big day and since then I never looked back.

In January 1976, after the emergency, I met Shubhash Gupta who was also working with Mr. Mittal. We both started working together. There was an empty hall near our office, we sat there. However, the hall was closed after a while.

During this, I met Bapuram Pakhade, who was also a lawyer by profession. He told me how one of the labourers working in the brick factory came to him because of a case and Mr. Bapuram handled the legal proceedings of that case. Soon after, many other such labourers started coming to him and I got associated with him and his work.

To be continued…..