“Baba Ka Dhaba” owner Kanta Prasad, who made headlines last year after a YouTuber revealed his grim financial condition triggered by the coronavirus pandemic to the world, has shut down a restaurant he had opened using lakhs received in donations. The reason – the restaurant was bringing hardly any customers and gave him poor returns. “On an investment of ₹ 1 lakh, we only earned ₹ 35,000, that is why we shut it. I am happy running my old eatery as the customer footfall is good here,” he was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
People from across the country had made generous donations to Kanta Prasad after the video – in which he tearfully talked about the loss of business due to the pandemic – went viral, Soon, a large number of people had come forward to help him and long queues were witnessed outside the dhaba. People were seen eager to click photographs with him.
Reacting to this, YouTuber Gaurav Wasan, who played a key role in uplifting Prasad’s standard of living and improving his economic status, only to get accused by the latter of misappropriating funds, said: “Nothing in this world is above Karma.”