Receiving endless calls daily, Neetu Shattran Wala still caught in poll web

Aakanksha N Bhardwaj

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Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, May 31

After May 23, when the Lok Sabha poll results were announced, every candidate has got settled. They know what their future is, but amid all this, there is one candidate — Neetu Shattran Wala — who is in a dilemma. He does not understand what is happening with him.

Enter his name on Google and one will get to know the level of his fame.

Neetu has become an overnight sensation. A plethora of jokes, memes, TikToks, and now even songs are being made on him. He is the person who had come out of the counting centre on the day of results crying saying that he had got only five votes in the first round. At the end of the day, he had got 856 votes. Neetu is unable to understand this phenomenon and this turmoil has certainly disturbed him and he is unable to work properly which he had been doing since years. He says mere kolo kamm nahee hunda peya (I am unable to work).

Neetu may be giving interviews, receiving numerous calls of people for help, but he claims: “Kuch nahee badleya meri zindagi vich. Main halle vi tutte bed te sonna, ohi purana pakha chalana” (Nothing has changed in my life. I still sleep on a broken bed under the same old fan).

However, he said The Great Khali got him to join the gym.

Neetu says that he had been getting umpteen number of calls on a daily basis and he was unable to work properly and concentrate.

“I have been getting calls from the UK, Canada and across the country, saying that they would help me, but nothing has been done. But most of them are frivolous calls,” he says.

Neetu is now confused. He is unable to express what he actually feels like. But one thing he says is that he was happy before the elections.

“Now, my relatives have become my enemy,” he said and claimed that they had been demanding money from him as they think that I have been getting a lot of monetary help.”

On the song which has been released with Neetu Shattran Wala as the central character in it, he said his children listen to the song daily and they tell him that his name was there in the song. However, it highlights how he had cried — “Ve tu Neetu Shattran Wale vang, houke lai lai rovenga”.

Neetu is into the work of repairing shutters and earns Rs 10,000 to Rs 12,000 per month. He had contested the poll for the first time this year.