Family members of Lakhwinder Kaur celebrating after she won the Rs 1.5 cr (first prize) in the Punjab State Diwali Bumper on Thursday.
Sumeer Singh
Tribune News Service
Bathinda, November 15
Life was not easy for 45-year-old Paramjit Singh, a Home Guard with Punjab Police, a father of four.
Subsisting hand to mouth, fortune smiled on the family rather unexpectedly on Thursday morning when Paramjit received a phone call.
He was informed that his daughter Lakhwinder Kaur, 17, had won a prize of Rs 1.5 crore in the Punjab State Diwali Bumper.
The household erupted in joy as congratulatory messages kept pouring throughout the day.
An elated Lakhwinder Kaur, a Class XII student, who had bought the ticket for Rs 200 a week before Diwali, said: “First of all, we will build a spacious house. Next, we will buy land and start some business. I will make sure my siblings get good education. Pursuing studies further, I will try get a bank job.” Paramjit Singh’s mother is afflicted with paralysis while he himself suffers from chronic arthritis.
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