When a transgender became MLA, Shabnam Aunty created history...
Many interesting stories of politics and elections of madhya pradesh are famous. Today we are going to tell
you one such story, which not only created history in indian electoral politics but also filled the third party of
the society with pride. The people of Shahdol district elected the country’s first transgender mla Shabnam
Mausi and sent her to the madhya pradesh Assembly.
This seat was a stronghold of Congress
Actually, by-election was being held in the month of february 2000 after the death of veteran mla KP
Singh from Sohagpur seat of Shahdol district. Political experts say that Sohagpur assembly seat of Shahdol
district was always a stronghold of Congress. Even when former prime minister Indira gandhi had lost the
elections held after the Emergency in the country, Congress's KP Singh had won from Sohagpur seat of
Shahdol.
Shabnam Aunty defeated veterans in election field
Transgender Shabnam aunty lived in Anuppur. Before becoming an mla, she used to earn her living by
dancing and singing in a festive atmosphere. This was the period when there was a lot of anger among the
people towards political parties. people were also very angry with the Digvijay government of Congress.
Shabnam Aunty was inspired from among the public to contest the by-election from Suhagpur seat.
Shabnam Aunty filed her nomination as an independent candidate to become MLA.
A total of 9 people including the authorized candidates of congress and bjp were in the fray. Shabnam
Aunty had got the election symbol kite as an independent candidate. After this, the kite of Janata candidate
or pupil candidate Shabnam Mausi flew so high in the election sky that the other candidates could not even
reach near her. Shabnam Aunty created history by cutting everyone's election kite.