They could be on reverse ends of the age spectrum however the welfare of the Capital’s youth is the core goal of each the oldest and youngest candidates contesting the upcoming Delhi Meeting polls.
Meet Kumari Bhawana (25) contesting as an unbiased candidate from the New Delhi constituency and Jagdish Chand, 83, who’s a CPI(M) candidate from Badarpur.
“My points are real and I hope to win…,” Bhawana tells The Indian Categorical. For Chand, age is only a quantity. “What if I’m outdated? Individuals respect me loads. They love me and I do know they may vote for me for change.”
In accordance with the Election Fee’s pointers, the minimal age for contesting elections is 25.
Bhawana, a resident of Nand Nagri in Northeast Delhi, is considered one of 4 candidates aged 25 contesting the elections in Delhi. She is up in opposition to high-profile candidates in a high-profile seat — AAP nationwide convenor Arvind Kejriwal, former BJP MP Parvesh Verma and Congress’ Sandeep Dikshit.
The constituency has a complete of 1,08,574 voters — 58,381 are male, 50,192 are feminine and there may be one transgender particular person.
Bhawana’s father, Devender, is as a wage labourer. The household lives in a one-room home, paying a hire of Rs 8,000 monthly. She is the eldest of her two siblings — a 23-year-old sister and a 21-year-old brother.
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After finishing BCom from Delhi College’s College of Open Studying, she helped out her father financially by doing part-time jobs. “The thought of contesting elections got here to my thoughts after I misplaced my job final 12 months, says Bhawana. “I used to be employed as an affiliate administrator at a financial institution. After working there for just a few months, they requested me to go away with out offering a legitimate motive. I protested loads, however it was to no avail. After dealing with this setback and seeing the situation of my household, I made a decision to contest.”
“I’ve borrowed Rs 10,000 from my kinfolk to contest the election. With the assistance of my brother, I designed the pamphlet on my cell phone and revealed it in units of fifty or 100 from a separate printing press to economize,” she says.
What are the problems she’s specializing in? She says it’s on “points associated to our youth”. “I need to finish the observe of contractual jobs, present free medical and healthcare services, and supply free schooling,” she provides.
On why she determined to problem the stalwarts within the New Delhi constituency, she says that since it’s a “sizzling seat”, individuals may take heed to her extra. “I don’t have a car so I’ll be specializing in door-to-door campaigning.”
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Chand, in the meantime, is not any stranger to elections — that is the third time he’s contesting. “I’ve been related to the CPI(M) since 1979. The occasion has offered me with logistical assist to contest the election,” he says.
Mendacity vacant after its former legislator, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, was elected because the South Delhi BJP MP final 12 months, Badarpur has an citizens of three,64,721 voters together with 2,03,185 male, 1,61,484 feminine and 52 transgender voters.
The AAP has fielded Ram Singh Netaji, the BJP has given a ticket to Narayan Dutt Sharma and the Congress to Arjun Bhadana from the seat.
Chand flags a number of issues within the constituency. Itemizing them out, he says, “Water is being contaminated because of a number of unlawful denims factories that use chemical compounds. There’s petty crime, land grabbing, corruption, and no correct sewage system.”
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Whereas campaigning door to door, Chand guarantees the those that he’ll make Badarpur free from unlawful denims factories, construct a university and a hospital, increase the peak of high-tension wires, and reclaim authorities land from the possession of the land mafia.
Chand, who retired from the NTPC as a supervisor, lives along with his spouse and two sons, who’re within the property enterprise in Meethapur village, Badarpur.
In 2012, he contested the MCD polls from Meethapur ward however misplaced by a margin of simply 41 votes. Within the 2020 Meeting polls, he had contested from Badarpur and completed fourth.
“Jeet haar to chalti rahegi, lekin hame bharosa hai ek din yahan ke logon ka bhala hoga. (Profitable or shedding will proceed, however I belief that sooner or later, individuals of this space may have a greater life),” he says.
