Chennai, Feb 6 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Forest Minister Dindigul C. Sreenivasan on Thursday asked a tribal boy to remove his footwear in Nilgiris district of the state.
Sreenivasan had gone there to inaugurate the rejuvenation camp for captive elephants in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve.
Unable to bend forward, Sreenivasan asked a tribal boy to unbuckle his footwear so that he can enter a temple.
–IANS
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