Officers of district administration also presided over a ‘Lok Kalyan’ camp organised on the occasion.

“No girl in the region would remain unmarried for want of money,” the maverick minister announced on the occasion. He has already arranged for marriage of 4,000 girls.

Voters regard the minister who had shot to fame after his famous remarks asking Brahmins not to beg for reservation as a local version of Robin Hood.

SDM (Rehli) Sanjiv Srivastava said he had never experienced something like this before. “If the constituency has really developed at the pace he promises then the Chief Minister should take a leaf out of his book,” quipped Govind Singh Rajput, a Congress MLA from Surkhi, a neighbouring constituency.