If people forget Caste, Religion and this so called Modi-Kejriwal Battle,Here is the list of some of the AAP candidates whom I would like to become MP.. All the information I have gathered to write this answer is from web(personal websites,Wiki pages,Blog-posts). 1) Rajmohan Gandhi,East Delhi,Delhi: From the day he has joined AAP, he has been portrayed as Grand-son of Mahatma Gandhi. Have a look at his real identity: Rajmohan Gandhi is a Research Professor at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Associated from 1956 with Initiatives of Change (formerly known as Moral Re-Armament),Rajmohan Gandhi has been engaged for half a century in efforts for trust-building, reconciliation and democracy and in battles against corruption and inequalities. 1960-1970: played a leading role in establishing Asia Plateau, the 67-acre conference center of Initiatives of Change in the mountains of western India. Asia Plateau, Panchgani, India iofc.org/panchgani 1975-77 :was active for democratic rights personally and through his weekly journal Himmat, published in Bombay from 1964 to 1981. 1985-87: edited the daily Indian Express in Madras (now Chennai), India From 1997: taught political science and history courses at University of Illinois,USA. Before teaching at the University of Illinois, he served as a Research Professor with the New Delhi think-tank, Center for Policy Research. He has worked consistently for India-Pakistan and Hindu-Muslim reconciliation. Since 9/11, he has also tried to address the divide between the West and the world of Islam. He was unanimously elected President of Initiatives of Change International for a two-year term, 2009-2010. He has written 10 books. It includes biography of sardar patel,Ghaffar Khan,Mohandas Gandhi, Chakrvarti Rajgopalachari. His website describes him as: Biographer | Journalist | Peace Builder 2) Soni Sori, Bastar(ST), Chattisgarh Soni Sori, a young adivasi teacher from Chhattisgarh, has been in police custody since October 2011. She was arrested in Delhi on October 4, 2011 and charged with being a conduit between the Essar Group and Maoists. She was taken to the Dantewada police station, where she was allegedly raped and tortured with stones inserted into her vagina and rectum. Source:DNA, March 8, 2013 Here is the long interview of her after she got bail from jail in 2014: ‘I think they will kill me… because the truth scares them’ | Ushinor Majumdar | Tehelka Here is the video link of whole story: tehelka/i-think-they-will-kill-me-because-the-truth-scares-them/ She had been let down by India.The same policemen who tortured her, will salute her if she becomes a M.P. Hope Bastar makes it happen. 3) Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya, Haridwar, Uttarakhand As a child, she saw her father who was caught in a property dispute being brutally beaten up. The police refused to register an FIR. That moment, she decided to be a police officer. She was the first women to become DGP of a state, the second to join the I.P.S. in 1973 and the first women IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh Cadre. Uddan,the popular TV Series of 1980, was inspired by true story of her. For more read: 2006 Reddif Interview: The woman who inspired a generation rediff/news/2006/apr/25inter.htm Hindu Interview: Officer who changed the face of the police thehindu/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/officer-who-changed-the-face-of-the-police/article3685110.ece 4) Naveen JaiHind, Rohtak, Hariyana Naveen have worked as a student leader and social activist in Haryana during 2006-2013. Founder of JaiHind Morcha: He started using JaiHind as his surname to indicate that he wished to remove the caste system from India. Jan Lokpal Bill and RTI: He was a member of the core committee of IAC during the Jan Lokpal Bill movement and worked for a Right to Information Act (RTI) at grassroots level. He also has worked for contract laborers and students. 5) Medha patkar,Mumbai North East,Maharashtra An Indian social activist,founder member of Narmada Bachao Andolan and National Convener of National Alliance of Peoples Movements (NAPM), an alliance of progressive people’s organisations. she worked with voluntary organizations in Mumbais slums for 5 years and tribal districts of North-East Gujarat for 2 years. She left her position on the faculty of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences as well as her unfinished Ph.D. when she became immersed in the tribal and peasant communities in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. 6) H.S.Phoolka,Ludhiana,Punjab He is a senior advocate of Delhi High Court,Human Rights activist,and author. He is well known for spearheading the crusade to seek justice in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in New Delhi that followed the assassination of Indira Gandhi and resulted in the killing of approximately 2,733 Sikhs and displacement of over 50,000 Sikhs within 2 days. Phoolka planned to move his residence to Chandigarh after the riots, but he learned that lawyers were needed to draft affidavits on behalf of the victims, and went to the Farsh Vihar relief camp to help. The sight of orphans, bereaved mothers and wives in the relief camp prompted the Phoolkas to change their plans. Instead of relocating to Chandigarh, they chose to stay and help the victims of the massacre.Since then, Phoolka has fought cases relentlessly for the victims despite government cover-up. Phoolka, along with human rights activist and journalist Manoj Mitta, has written the first account of the 1984 Anti-Sikh massacre in the form of a book titled When a Tree Shook Delhi.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 05:03:18 +0000
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