Indian Trans Politician Wins Election
December 8, 2022The national capital’s municipal corporation is to get its first transgender councilor. Bobby Kinnar, who was fielded by the Aam Aadmi Party, won from Sultanpuri 43 A ward of Sultanpur Majra Assembly on Wednesday.
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According to India Today, Bobby defeated Congress’s Varuna Dhaka by 6,714 votes. “I want to dedicate my victory to the people who worked so hard for me. I would like to thank everyone. Now I just have to work for development in my area,” Bobby said.
Bobby is a known face in the Sultanpuri area. She had also contested the MCD elections in 2017 as an independent candidate. She has been associated with the AAP since the Anna Hazare movement and later when the party was formed.
Bobby had opened up about how she had faced discrimination because of her gender identity. As a teenager, she was taken in by the transgender community and went on to become a wedding dancer. And this is where Bobby’s journey in social work and subsequently into politics began.
Bobby Kinnar is the president of the Delhi unit of Hindu Yuva Samaj Ekta Awam Anti-Terrorism Committee. Bobby has been associated with this organization for the last 15 years.
In an earlier interview with India Today, Bobby Kinnar said “I want the people of my [transgender] society to come forward in politics, like before. Now the people of our society are moving away from politics. There are many educated people in our society. I want all such people to come into politics and do social service so that our name also increases in society.”
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