To find a partner has not been an easy task for thousands during the lockdown, but for some fate played a huge role in their love lives.?
Like this UP man who found the love of his life in the most unexpected places. According to reports, the UP man who is a driver by profession was involved in the philanthropic work of helping the poor with food amid lockdown.?
One day he noticed a woman begging on the same street he was distributing food in.
Anil who drives a car of a social worker and property dealer Lalta Prasad used to go out to distribute food among the poor every day?.
That is he met the girl named Neelam who used to sit on the pavement under the bridge waiting for food amongst other beggars.
Anil would give her food and the conversation between them bloomed. When Lalta Prasad came to know about this, he asked Anil to deliver food both times and the love story took off from there.? ?
Neelam told Times of India that her father died a long time ago and her mother suffered a stroke, following which her brother and her sister-in-law threw them out of the house.
With nowhere to live and limited food in had, she took to begging on the footpath.
"As we had nothing, I started begging on the footpath with others. The lockdown made life even more miserable. But it had a silver lining too. During the lockdown, Anil used to come every day with his employer to distribute food to the poor," Neelam told?Times of India.
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One day, Anil proposed to Neelam and the couple decided to get married at an ashram while maintaining social distancing.?The wedding was solemnised at Lord Buddha Ashram and was attended by several other activists.