An Indian girl has become the talk of people in her country, taking the headlines, after she carried her injured father behind her on a bicycle, crossing it more than 1,200 km, across the country, after being forced to completely close by the emerging coronavirus, to return to their village.
The story of the girl, Jyoti Kumari (15 years old), attracted not only the Indian press, but also resonated with the international news agencies that reported her, and she also defeated the daughter of US President Ivanka Trump, on her account on Twitter, as well as a large number of pioneers. Social Media.
Jyoti drove the bike as her father, Mohan Baswan, sat behind her carrying their belongings, from Gurugram near the capital, New Delhi, to their village in the northeastern Bihar state.
After a seven-day journey that covered 1,200 kilometers, the father and daughter arrived in their village on May 16.
Busan works as a tuk tuk taxi driver, but he has lost his job as millions of workers in the country, after the authorities imposed a total closure, and prevented movement since last March to reduce the spread of "Covid-19".
With the money not available to pay rent or buy food and public transportation stops, many have returned to their villages either on foot, or through bicycles such as Jyoti and her father.
The arduous journey of the father and his daughter on a used bike, which they bought with the remaining money, occupied the headlines, so Jyoti became famous for the nickname of the bike girl who promised her mother that she would carry out her mission: "to return Baba to the house" after he was injured and could no longer walk. Along her way, using her borrowed cell phones, her mother was reassuring: "Don't worry, mom, I'm going to bring my father back home."
The girl caught the attention of the Indian Cycling Federation, which invited her to participate in the experiences of the national team.