Gurgaon, March 27 (IANS) Usha Rani Verma, Kusheshwar Bhagat and Abdul Latif are among the 22 candidates contesting for the Gurgaon Lok Sabha seat. They are a housewife, a Pav Bhaji vendor and a tyre mechanic.
Verma, a 36-year-old resident of Rajiv Nagar, is a post-graduate housewife and the only woman candidate.
Rao Inderjeet Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Yogendra Yadav of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Zakir Hussain of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and Rao Dharampal Singh of the Congress are the main contenders.
There are a total of 13 Independent candidates in the fray this time.
Kusheshwar Bhagat, a resident of Kirti Nagar here, hails from Maharashtra and has been living in Gurgaon for over 15 years. He is a Pav Bhaji vendor.
He had also contested in the 2009 Lok Sabha election and the last two assembly polls.
"I wanted to contest on an AAP ticket but could not get it," Bhagat said.
Though Bhagat never won any election, people call him "Election wala Pav Bhaji".
Abdul Latif, a resident of Sarai Alawardi village here, has been repairing punctured tyres for years.
"We were regular voters of the Congress. I don't want to vote for any other party, but the Congress was out of the fight. So I decided to contest as an Independent," Latif said.
In the 2009 election, there were two women candidates - Sudha Yadav of the BJP and Vimla, an Independent.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday published details of electoral bonds in compli
Modi invokes Lord Ram in Faizabad, Congress complains
Lucknow/New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) BJP leader Narendra Modi Monday invoked the name of Lord Ram in
BSP's UP legislator, leaders' wives joins BJP
Lucknow, Feb 3 (IANS) A Bahujan Samaj Party legislator in Uttar Pradesh and wife and son of a s
National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval has left for Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe to attend a
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will go to Tihar Jail on June 2. Before this, on Friday, he
Mihir Shah, the prime accused in the BMW hit-and-run case that killed a 45-year-old woman in Mumb
Sri Lanka's Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe on Monday sacked the National Cricket Board after t
Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya is very happy after winning four consecutive matches in IPL
Kerala bar owner's tapes suggest leaders knew of Mani bribe
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 19 (IANS) Two audio recordings of
Sri Lanka is facing a historic crisis these days due to wrong economic policies and weak leadersh
