India’s ‘first Kinnar sarpanch’ now in Lok Sabha fray from Madhya Pradesh
The HinduThe rituals of Navmi, the last day of the nine-day Hindu festival of Navratri, have just gotten over at her home in Kanhwara village in Madhya Pradesh’s Katni district, and Durga Bai Majhwar — better known as Durga Mausi — is dressed up as the goddess she is named after, ready for a performance at the famous Maa Sharda Temple in neighbouring Maihar. Ms. Majhwar, 36, who claims to be India’s first sarpanch from the transgender or Kinnar community, is now in the fray as an Independent Lok Sabha candidate from M.P.’s Damoh constituency. Like others from the Kinnar community, I too used to be called all kinds of names,” she says, adding that while her parents loved her, they too were “bound by the society’s constraints”. “This is the reason I have entered the fray from neighbouring Damoh instead of my own constituency,” she says, adding that fellow members of the Kinnar community and the general public are campaigning for her.
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