Bengal polls: Transgender candidate adds third angle in Mamata seat
Party's Vice-President Ram Chandra Paswan on Friday announced that a 39-year-old transgender Bobby Halder will contest under LJP's symbol from the politically crucial constituency.
Creating a history, Madhu Kinnar, a 35-year-old third gender independent candidate from Dalit community, was elected as India's first transgender mayor in Chhattisgarh's Raigarh Municipal Corporation in January 2015.
In West Bengal, no political party had set a transgender contestant in elections before.
Meanwhile, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's kin Chandra Kumar Bose and former Union Minister Deepa Dasmunsi are contesting from the same constituency (Bhawanipore) under the logos of BJP and Left Front-Congress combination respectively.
Assembly elections in the state will be starting from Apr 4.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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