'Dedicate my victory to...': Meet AAP's transgender candidate Bobi who defeated Congress in MCD polls

Bobi, an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) transgender candidate wrote history after she won from the Sultanpuri-A ward on Wednesday in the MCD polls.

New Delhi:An Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) transgender candidate Bobi Kinnar in the fray for MCD polls won from the Sultanpuri-A ward on Wednesday. Bobi defeated Congress candidate Varuna Dhaka by a margin of 6,714 votes and became the first transgender to enter Delhi politics. After the big win, Bobi said that she aspired to work for development in her area. She thanked all the people who helped her in the momentous victory.

"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," said Bobi. In 2017, Bobi contested the MCD elections as an independent candidate but didn't win. She has been associated with the AAP since Anna Hazare's movement. Bobi is also the president of the Delhi unit of 'Hindu Yuva Samaj Ekta Awam Anti-Terrorism Committee'.

Earlier on October 12, Bobi had filed her nomination during which she spoke to the media. "I am grateful to Arvind Kejriwal for making me a candidate for the Aam Aadmi Party. Till now I was engaged in social service work at my level, now after winning I will work as a representative of my community," Bobi said.

"I have been engaged in social service work since the time of Anna's movement. So far, I have got 150 girls married, especially since I help all the disabled and helpless people who come. My aim is to win the election so that I can serve such people," she had added.

She also aspires to help the people of the transgender community. She added, "I will also raise issues related to transgender people and help them. Most of the poor people live in my area. So I will work for them. Today people are in favour of the Aam Aadmi Party, in Delhi BJP has given nothing except three garbage mountains in 15 years."

Asked whether she encountered any difficulty in the election campaign due to being transgender, Bobi said, "there was no difficulty in the campaign for me, people support us." The Aam Aadmi Party crossed the halfway mark gaining a majority in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections on Wednesday, thus uprooting the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) 15-year-long rule in the city's civic body.