Thiruvananthapuram

Anoop, an auto driver from Sreevaraham in Thiruvananthapuram has won this year's Onam bumper lottery.

This year's Onam bumper offered the highest prize money of Rs 25 crores. Anoop had purchased the lucky ticket from Bhagavathy Agency on Saturday night.

Anoop is an autorickshaw driver. Earlier he was working as a chef in a hotel and was planning to go to Malaysia to work as a chef.

Kerala finance minister K N Balagopal did the lucky draw in the presence of transport minister Antony Raju and Vattiyoorkavu MLA V K Prasanth on Sunday afternoon.

This year's Onam bumper price is the highest price money in the history of the Kerala lottery, 25 crore rupees and 5 crores were the amount for the first and second prize with 1 crore each for 10 persons as the third prize.

Anoop will get 15 crores 75 lakhs rupees after tax deduction.

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67 lakhs Onam bumper tickets were printed this year and almost all tickets were sold out. Each ticket cost Rs 500. Lottery is one of the main sources of Income for the Kerala government.