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Another tea seller’s rise as politician

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SHILLONG: Like Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former chief minister and MPCC president DD Lapang has revealed that during his poverty stricken childhood, he had to sell tea along with his mother to sustain the family.
“My father was a tailor and mother was running a tea stall and at times she worked in paddy field. I had to sell tea at Nongpoh and Umsning bazaars to help my mother,” Lapang, who opted out of the electoral race, told The Shillong Times.
Lapang, who is originally from Nongjri village under Umsning, said after being educated, he had also worked as a road labourer without any remorse to support himself and the family. He has three brothers and two sisters.
Prior to this, a pastor took him to Umroi with his mother’s permission though she wanted him back home.
After his primary education in Umsning, he completed his matriculation from Shillong Government High School and later graduated from the evening session of St Anthony’s College.
The five-time chief minister had donned the role of a teacher at Saiden Basic School, Nongpoh, typist in the forest department under Assam, LDA and later UDA for 13 years in Assam Civil Secretariat and 19 years as sub-inspector of schools.

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