Kenya MP Returns to Aurangabad after 30 years to repay Rs 200

Kenya MP Returns to Aurangabad after 30 years to repay Rs 200
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Some three decades back, Kenyan resident Richard Tongi was studying management in a college in Aurangabad, he did not have much money to go around. A local grocer, Kashinath Gawli, used to help him out now and then.

When Tongi returned, he still owed Gawli Rs 200. Flash forward to 2019 and the debt stands repaid. Tongi now a parliamentarian in Kenya paid the Gawli's a visit on Monday, and the two had a poignant reunion.

Septuagenarian Kashinath Gawli's was overwhelmed withemotions as he found an MP from Kenya at his doorsteps in Aurangabad, returnedto the historic city after 30 years, who had come calling to meet his oldbenefactor.

When Gawli's refused to accept the Rs 200, Tongi gifted someeuros about Rs 19,200 to the kids in this family as a thank you for his helpall those years ago in 1985-89.

It may be mentioned here that Richard was a student ofmanagement studies at a local college in Aurangabad during 1985-89.

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