A blind girl reminded Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee of the promise he had made to her when she tied a rakhi to him on Tuesday.
An embarrassed Vajpayee admitted he had committed a 'big mistake' and said it would not be repeated.
But what was the mistake?
Vajpayee failed to send her a cassette of his poems, which he had promised to her when she tied a rakhi to him last year
The girl, from Om Prakash Foundation hostel and Vocational Training Centre for Blind Girls (Delhi), insisted on the prime minister reciting a few lines. Vajpayee obliged by reciting his famous lines Kadam milake chalna hoga.
Children from different schools in and around Delhi, some of them physically challenged, enjoyed every moment of the occasion to tie rakhis on the wrist of Vajpayee who sat smiling throughout the function.
The cynosure of all eyes was Sandhya, who on crutches trudged to Vajpayee and not only tied the Rakhi but won his heart by singing a patriotic song -- pyara Bharat desh hamara, jhanda uncha rahe hamara.
Sandhya and some other physically handicapped children from the society for rehabilitation later posed with the prime minister for a snap.
