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KBC Contestant Durga Prasad Shahi: Amitabh Bachchan’s game show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ (KBC) Like every year, the 18th season is going on with a bang this time. Every day new contestants sit on the hot seat to try their luck in the show. On Monday (September 7, 2026), Durga Prasad Sahi, resident of Durg, Chhattisgarh, sat on the hot seat. It is being told that Durga Prasad is a teacher and farmer by profession. During the show, he told that due to his gambling addiction, he had incurred a debt of lakhs and he wanted to repay it with the money he won in KBC.

Durga Prasad Sahi gave correct answers to questions worth Rs 12.50 lakh. But the question of Rs 25 lakh forced him to leave the show.

What was the question?

The question of Rs 25 lakh was: Most of the species of reptiles give birth to babies directly instead of laying eggs? Its options were Komodo Dragon, Anaconda, Crocodile, Galapagos Tortoise.

Durga Prasad did not know the correct answer to this question. Therefore, he decided to leave the show with the winning amount of Rs 12.50 lakh. Before leaving he replied ‘crocodile’. Which was the wrong answer. If we talk about the correct answer then it was Anaconda.

Durga Prasad talked about her personal life during the episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati 18. He told that he sometimes enjoyed betting on cricket matches. This interest gradually turned into a habit and eventually became a serious addiction to gambling.

What did Durga Prasad tell next?

Durga Prasad further told that he started it by placing small bets of Rs 10 or 20 with friends. But until his habit became an addiction. By then it was too late. After this, he became so addicted to this thing that he started taking loan for it. He had a debt of up to Rs 50 thousand. As the debt increased, he borrowed more money to repay it, after which he continued to fall into debt. Durga Prasad said that he did not even realize when his loan of Rs 10 turned into Rs 10 lakh.