President’s daughter to swim against the tide
6 Jan 2015 7:19 AM IST
“She is going to be our candidate in the upcoming assembly polls and she would be the first Bengali in the electoral fray in the national capital,” Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh Lovely on Monday told this reporter at a social do of the Congress in the city.
Lovely got his statistics slightly mixed-up as Sharmistha would be the first Bengali in the fray for assembly polls in the city.
Before her, one Ananda Banerjee had got elected on BJP ticket to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi in 1996 from Chittaranjan Park ward. Chitto Park, as it’s popularly known, forms part of the Greater Kailash seat from where president’s daughter proposes to contest. Much before her, Mukul Banerji had won from the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat in 1971 defeating Moti Lal Sondhi of the Bharatiya Jan Sangh (BJP’s predecessor).
Realising that she would exactly not be the pioneering Bengali politician in the city, she has a smart reply at hand. “I would check with my father. You know he is the encyclopedia of all political information,” says Mukherjee, who is otherwise a trained Kathak dancer and has been brought up in these parts of the city. Her papa’s girl, she doesn’t flap an eyelid when faced with uncomfortable queries. “We are told that BJP is planning a weak candidate for the Greater Kailash seat. After all they would not want to annoy the President,” said a reporter. She is quick with the reply, “I am told their towering leader Vijay Kumar Malhotra’s son Ajay Malhotra is being fielded.”
Quickly she shifts focus of the conversation. “I am depending on personal contacts and trying to develop newer equations. People have come to feel insecure in absence of accessible local representative.”
Realising her onerous task at hand, she says, “The real challenge is in picking up the gauntlet when the stocks are down, so I look forward to being party’s soldier in the tough battle ahead.”
Lovely got his statistics slightly mixed-up as Sharmistha would be the first Bengali in the fray for assembly polls in the city.
Before her, one Ananda Banerjee had got elected on BJP ticket to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi in 1996 from Chittaranjan Park ward. Chitto Park, as it’s popularly known, forms part of the Greater Kailash seat from where president’s daughter proposes to contest. Much before her, Mukul Banerji had won from the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat in 1971 defeating Moti Lal Sondhi of the Bharatiya Jan Sangh (BJP’s predecessor).
Realising that she would exactly not be the pioneering Bengali politician in the city, she has a smart reply at hand. “I would check with my father. You know he is the encyclopedia of all political information,” says Mukherjee, who is otherwise a trained Kathak dancer and has been brought up in these parts of the city. Her papa’s girl, she doesn’t flap an eyelid when faced with uncomfortable queries. “We are told that BJP is planning a weak candidate for the Greater Kailash seat. After all they would not want to annoy the President,” said a reporter. She is quick with the reply, “I am told their towering leader Vijay Kumar Malhotra’s son Ajay Malhotra is being fielded.”
Quickly she shifts focus of the conversation. “I am depending on personal contacts and trying to develop newer equations. People have come to feel insecure in absence of accessible local representative.”
Realising her onerous task at hand, she says, “The real challenge is in picking up the gauntlet when the stocks are down, so I look forward to being party’s soldier in the tough battle ahead.”
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