Every year, National Lottery Day is celebrated on 17th July. Lottery is a game of luck. Apart from India, there is a lot of craze for lottery game in many countries of the world. Many people have won crores and billions through this game. Today we will tell you about the lottery king of India, who donates crores of rupees.
Lottery game
Lottery is a game of luck. People in many countries of the world like to play this game and the one whose luck favors them, wins. People around the world try their luck by buying lottery tickets. However, many such incidents have come to light, in which a person has earned crores and billions through lottery in one go. But it is not necessary that this will happen with everyone. That is why it is called lottery.
Lottery King
Santiago Martin is also known as Lottery King in the country. When after the order of the Supreme Court, the information about election donations has been made public on 14 March 2024. At that time, according to the data available on the Election Commission website, the highest donation of Rs 1368 crore was given by Lottery King Santiago Martin.
Santiago Martin’s journey
Born in 1961, Martin spent a few years working as a daily wage laborer in Myanmar during his youth. But in the 1980s, when the craze for lottery tickets increased, he returned to India. During this time, he settled in Coimbatore while working in a tea shop in Tatabad. After this, Martin decided to set up a shop selling lottery tickets. According to Martin’s wife Lima Rose, the lottery business was a double bonus for him, because often the prize money for unsold tickets also went into his pocket.
Opened lottery shop in Coimbatore
Let us tell you that Martin was 26 years old in 1987. At that time he opened five lottery shops in Coimbatore. After this, he got married in the same year. After which Martin started printing tickets in 1988. By the 1990s, he had established himself as a market leader in Tamil Nadu.
Family active in politics
According to the information, the problems of the lottery king increased in 2011. The AIADMK government then returned to power in the state and jailed Martin for eight months after accusing him of 14 cases of land grabbing, illegal lottery sales and fraud in various parts. He was released on May 7, 2012. After Martin’s arrest, his wife joined politics. She was made the state deputy general secretary of the Bharatiya Jananayaka Katchi. A few years later, his elder son Charles Jose joined the BJP, while his brother Tyson Martin formed his own party ‘Tamilar Vidiyal Katchi’. Martin’s son-in-law Adhav Arjun has recently joined the VCK. Not only this, in 2014 when Prime Minister Do mosquitoes bite people who drink beer more? This was revealed in a study