Giving the new generation a visible presence in local bodies across the state, candidates aged only 21 and 22 have won Jaipur and Alwar municipal elections. New Delhi: Rajasthan’s civic election results have brought a crop of young faces into local politics.
In Alwar district’s Thanagazi municipality, BJP candidate Sharma won the Ward 6 election at the age of 21. She defeated the Congress candidate by 101 votes. He won from Ward 71 and defeated an independent candidate and the BJP nominee. Another young Congress candidate, 22-year-old Suman Bhati, won from Jaipur’s Ward 72. She defeated independent candidate Rachna Kalosiya by more than 2,000 votes.
She recorded the biggest winning margin among BJP candidates in the municipality, according to the party. She secured the seat in a razor-sharp contest. Twenty-one-year-old Hasan entered the municipal corporation as a Congress candidate. She is from Jaipur’s Jhalana slum area and has been associated with the Congress student organisation NSUI for a long time. Her political journey through student activities has now taken her into the Jaipur municipal corporation.
