Patna, Oct. 5 :    Patna, Oct. 5:  A Laloo crony and minister in the Rabri Devi government in Bihar has called for a 10 per cent job reservations for wrestlers, threatening to lead a march of some 400 semi-clad 'Pahalwan' in New Delhi to convince the Centre of his seriousness. Bihar's minister for commercial taxes Dadan Singh, alias Dadan Pahalwan, a self-confessed wrestling enthusiast and former pahalwan, says job reservations for wrestlers were a way of raising a civil army of skilled fighters who could also tackle the growing problem of crime and antisocials within the community. Singh is currently busy organising a national-level wrestling meet in Patna, the Bharat Kesri Kushti Dangal, to be held in Patna's Miller School campus from October 21. Over 400 wrestlers from across the country, including Gorakhpur and Benaras in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, are expected to participate in the meet, scheduled to be inaugurated by Singh's political mentor, Bihar strongman Laloo Prasad Yadav. Singh, one of the few Independents in the Rabri Devi Cabinet, entered the Bihar Assembly on the waves of a successful campaign against lawlessness in the villages, displaying his huge muscles and boasting to voters that he had the ability not only to fight anti-socials as well as politicians. When Laloo Yadav faced a trial of strength to prove his majority in the House, Singh decided to support Yadav and was subsequently rewarded with a ministership. 'I did not ask for it,' he says, adding that it was Rabri Devi's generosity to make him a minister. However, immediately after assuming office, Singh found himself on the mat when officers in his commercial taxes department refused to cooperate with him and he demanded their mass transfer. The impasse was resolved only after a last-minute intervention by Laloo Yadav. 'There were some others who tried to put me in trouble by framing me in a number of cases,' Singh claims. 'But they failed to shake my faith in the power of bodybuilding.' Singh is wanted in a number of criminal cases, including a murder, which he dismissed as 'weak conspiracies'. Singh, who is using the forthcoming wrestling meet as a platform for publicity and self promotion, has pinned a lot of hopes on the meet's outcome. 'This is going to be a very big show, the first ever in the country,' he says, adding that he hoped the meet would give a boost to wrestling, revive the rustic culture of wrestling akharas in the state and bridge the caste divide among people in Bihar. Concentrating on the promotion of the akhara culture in Bihar, Singh plans to ask his mentor Laloo Yadav to appoint a wrestling coach for each district of the state. The coach, much like the district health officer, would go around the villages supervising the akharas. To further promote the culture of wrestling in Bihar, Singh wants his government to instal a life-size statue of local wrestling legend, Bir Lory Pahalwan. 'We have enough statue of politicians. Let us have one of the wrestler,' he says. Singh's plans for wrestling promotion don't end there; he says he would organise public marches to promote the sport. He says he would also use his wrestlers to help his mentor Laloo Yadav to save his government when needed. A great fan of Yadav, Singh feels he would have remained a wrestler all his life if his mentor hadn't come forward to help him. 'There are times when the strong and honest should join politics,' he says, adding that Laloo Yadav is just such a person. The poster produced by Singh to draw public attention to his wrestling meet has the pictures of two great names in the wrestling business - Jagdish Kaliraman and Rajiv Tomar. But it's Laloo Yadav's picture that crowns the poster. After all, 'isn't he the biggest wrestler in politics?' Singh asks. Indeed!