Recently, Indian driver Ajay Ogula, working in Dubai, the commercial hub of the United Arab Emirates, won a lottery worth 1.5 million dirhams. The amount of this money in Indian currency is 33 crore rupees and in Bangladeshi currency it is 43 crore 23 lakh rupees.
On Friday (December 23), quoting Emirates-based media Khaleej Times, Indian media NDTV said, Anil Agula went to Dubai four years ago from a remote village in southern India to turn the wheel of fortune.
Currently, he is working as a driver in an ornament manufacturing factory there. Get salary at the end of the month 3 thousand 200 dirhams or about 92 thousand taka.Ajay told Khaleej Times, I can't believe it, I won the first prize of the lottery.
Recently a friend of mine won 7 thousand 777 dirhams in the lottery. After receiving the money in his account, I believe that it is not fake. Later I also cut the first lottery ticket in my life. And that's how I got this award.
The southern youth living in Dubai said that he wants to buy a house for his family with a large amount of money and open his own construction company. Moreover, he will give a significant part of this money to his charity, through which his city and neighboring villages in India will be developed.
He also said that none of his mother and siblings in India wanted to believe the news of him winning the lottery and becoming a millionaire. But after the news about me, they believed.
In the same raffle draw, 50-year-old British citizen Paula Leach won a lottery worth about 2.2 million taka. A mother of three, Leach has been working as a human resources officer at Emirates for almost 14 years.