Five rupee Doctor to contest as independent in Karnataka elections
Mandya: Mandya Assembly segment, known for its extravagant poll campaign expenditure incurred by major party candidates is witnessing a true son of the soil testing the electoral waters.
Dr. Shankare Gowda charges only Rs 5 per patient for a 'complete package' which include a thorough checkup, consultation, prescription and medicine including injection, if needed and is hugely popular in this region for the past 35 years.
A native of Shivalli and resident of Bandi Gowda Layout, has an enormous fan base across the district. He had neither increased the fee nor joined any private hospitals in spite of good pay-packages offered to him.
Accompanied by his wife Rukmini, daughter Ujwala and others, he visited the taluk office and submitted the nomination papers for Mandya Assembly constituency.
The MBBS graduate from highly reputed Kasturba Medical College in Manipal, has also done his PG Diploma in Venereology and Dermatology (DVD). He attends to at least 500 patients at his village and clinic in the town every day.
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