MCD Election Result 2022: AAP’s Bobby Kinnar, only transgender candidate, wins from Sultanpuri A

Delhi MCD Election Result 2022: Only transgender candidate AAP’s Bobby Kinnar WINS from Sultanpuri A, MCD to have first ever transgender member.

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Delhi MCD Election Result 2022: The only transgender candidate Bobby Kinnar wins from Sultanpuri A ward. The candidate belongs to the Arvind Kejriwal led- Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate. After this victory, MCD will have a member of the transgender community for the first time. This has never happened before, that any political party has given a ticket to a candidate from the Kinnar community. With this win, Bobby plans to aim towards ending corruption. Bobby has been associated with AAP since the Anna Hazare's movement. In 2017, Bobby contested MCD elections as an independent candidate, but didn't win. 

While campaigning for the polls, the AAP candidate had promised to take the Kejriwal government`s work to the public and work towards ending corruption if she becomes a councillor.

Bobi, the AAP candidate from Sultanpuri-A ward, wins. For the first time, MCD to have a member of the transgender community. #DelhiMCDElectionResults2022 pic.twitter.com/FfbE9g4Im1

— ANI (@ANI) December 7, 2022

Who is AAP's Bobby Kinnar? Here's all you need to know about Bobby Kinnar, only transgender candidate

Bobby Kinnar, who called a BIG WIN for the Arvind Kejriwal led- AAP from Sultanpuri-A ward, will be writing history as for the first time, MCD will have a member of the transgender community. Kinnar, who left a mark through social work in the ward, was found at the top of the survey and was declared a candidate for the municipal elections. Bobby Kinnar who is 38 years old holds a motivational and inspiring. She has reportedly helped several children in her area get admissions, which is an onerous task in the national capital. She was given away by her family to a guruji at the tender age of 15. 

"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, the AAP candidate from transgender community who won from Sultanpuri-A ward#DelhiMCDElectionResults2022 pic.twitter.com/Pg7fWhYMHL

— ANI (@ANI) December 7, 2022

She had to drop out of Class 9 as she was bullied and harassed. She entered social work and politics in 2011 after she took part in the Anna Hazare anti-corruption movement, and since then. there was no looking back. She is the president of the Delhi unit of 'Hindu Yuva Samaj Ekta Awam Terrorism Protodhi Samiti' for 15 years. Kinnar also runs a primary school to educate the children of her area.

She further said that many people in the transgender community are also educated and that's why she wants other people of her society to come forward in politics like her, so that the name of her community can move forward.