A poverty-hit tribal girl accepted a youth as her groom yesterday at a gathering of about 15,000 people in a remote Chhattisgarh village at the first ever swayamvar in the state in decades.

People thronged Durg district's Ghumka village, some 110 km west of capital Raipur, to watch the first ever swayamvar of Kalyug.

A section of the girl's Halba tribe boycotted the function terming it unacceptable.
Swayamvar in ancient India was a practice of choosing a life partner from among a list of suitors by a girl of marriageable age.

The bride's father Ramratan Thakur, had announced a month ago to marry off his daughter to a youth who would successfully reply to questions related to the creation of human beings.

The long wait of thousands of people, who assembled in an open ground at the village, ended around 10 pm when a tribal youth Ghanaram successfully answered the questions.