NEW DELHI, March 10 -- Senior BJP leader and Assam education minister Siddhartha Bhattacharya is yet to shift to his official residence in Ministers Colony in Dispur, but his Jersey cows - brought especially for the purpose of daily farming - have already settled comfortably in the colony campus.
This is the first time in Assam that a cabinet minister has decided to start a dairy farm inside his official residence. Former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav is the only other senior minister known to have a cow farm inside his residence.
Bhattacharya has appointed four employees for the management of the farm and pays them Rs 300 each for a day's work. "The four of us are responsible for the caretaking of four jersey cows," an employee ...