Original Post - http://www.quora.com/Aam-Aadmi-Party/How-many-candidates-from-the-AAP-look-promising
Question Now that AAP has released 187 candidates. Can anybody tell which of them are most likely to win?
By Amit Zala, Keen Observer
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#UPDATE 3:
Map of India with AAP candidates,Innovative way:
Aam Aadmi Party, India
Have a look at candidate of your constituency.
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#UPDATE 2:
Added detail of 3 Female Candidates(starts from 13 ) :When it comes to female candidates, most parties mostly come up with their daughter/ wife/ daughter-in-law, just to represent their party gives importance to women. AAP certainly have edge over them. In my earlier list also there are 4 awesome female candidates.
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#UPDATE 1:
I have added detail of 6 more candidates: Meera sanyal, Lingraj, Anand Kumar,Major Surendra Kumar Punia, Maruti Sahebraw Bhapkar, Mukul Tripathy.
I have avoided writing about Yogendra yadav,Kumar Vishwas,Shazia Ilmi,Sanjay Singh and other well known faces. Since lot of people know them already,I dont want to make this post unnecessarily long.
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If people forget Caste, Religion and this so called Modi-Kejriwal Battle,Here is the list of AAP candidates whom I would like to become MP.I have decided to update this answer, as AAP declares more Candidates. I am currently writing for other candidates as well, will update it as soon as I Complete. It took me 2 to 3 hours just to write about this 6 candidates. So I decided to post it and will keep updating it. All the information I have gathered to write this answer is from web(personal websites,Wiki pages,Blog-posts). So suggest edits if you find something factually incorrect.Also I didn't goggle for every candidate so If there is extra ordinary candidate from your constituency,suggest edits with his details.
1) Rajmohan Gandhi,East Delhi,Delhi:
From the day he has joined AAP, he has been portrayed as Grand-son of Mahatma Gandhi. Have a look at his real identity:
Rajmohan Gandhi is a Research Professor at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Associated from 1956 with Initiatives of Change (formerly known as Moral Re-Armament),Rajmohan Gandhi has been engaged for half a century in efforts fortrust-building, reconciliation and democracy and in battles against corruption and inequalities.
1960-1970: played a leading role in establishing Asia Plateau, the 67-acre conference center of Initiatives of Change in the mountains of western India.
Asia Plateau, Panchgani, India
1975-77 :was active for democratic rights personally and through his weekly journalHimmat, published in Bombay from 1964 to 1981.
1985-87: edited the daily Indian Express in Madras (now Chennai), India
From 1997: taught political science and history courses at University of Illinois,USA.
Before teaching at the University of Illinois, he served as a Research Professor with the New Delhi think-tank, Center for Policy Research.
He has worked consistently for India-Pakistan and Hindu-Muslim reconciliation. Since 9/11, he has also tried to address the divide between the West and the world of Islam.
He was unanimously elected President of Initiatives of Change International for a two-year term, 2009-2010.
He has written 10 books. It includes biography of sardar patel,Ghaffar Khan,Mohandas Gandhi, Chakrvarti Rajgopalachari.
His website describes him as: Biographer | Journalist | Peace Builder
2) Soni Sori, Bastar(ST), Chattisgarh
http://www.tehelka.com/i-think-they-will-kill-me-because-the-truth-scares-them/
Soni Sori, a young adivasi teacher from Chhattisgarh, has been in police custody since October 2011.
She was arrested in Delhi on October 4, 2011 and charged with being a conduit between the Essar Group and Maoists.
She was taken to the Dantewada police station, where she was allegedly raped and tortured with stones inserted into her vagina and rectum.
Source:DNA, March 8, 2013
Here is the long interview of her after she got bail from jail in 2014:
‘I think they will kill me… because the truth scares them’ | Ushinor Majumdar | Tehelka.com
Here is the video link of whole story:
She had been let down by India.The same policemen who tortured her, will salute her if she becomes a M.P.
Hope Bastar makes it happen.
3) Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya, Haridwar, Uttarakhand
As a child, she saw her father who was caught in a property dispute being brutally beaten up.
The police refused to register an FIR. That moment, she decided to be a police officer.
She was the first women to become DGP of a state, the second to join the I.P.S. in 1973 and the first women IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh Cadre.
Uddan,the popular TV Series of 1980, was inspired by true story of her.
For more read:
2006 Reddif Interview: The woman who inspired a generation
Hindu Interview: Officer who changed the face of the police
4) Naveen JaiHind, Rohtak, Hariyana
Naveen have worked as a student leader and social activist in Haryana during 2006-2013.
Founder of JaiHind Morcha:
He started using "JaiHind" as his surname to indicate that he wished to remove the caste system from India.
Jan Lokpal Bill and RTI:
He was a member of the core committee of IAC during the Jan Lokpal Bill movement and worked for a Right to Information Act (RTI) at grassroots level.
He also has worked for contract laborers and students.
5) Medha patkar,Mumbai North East,Maharashtra
An Indian social activist,founder member of Narmada Bachao Andolan and National Convener of National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM), an alliance of progressive people’s organisations.
she worked with voluntary organizations in Mumbai's slums for 5 years and tribal districts of North-East Gujarat for 2 years. She left her position on the faculty of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences as well as her unfinished Ph.D. when she became immersed in the tribal and peasant communities in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat.
6) H.S.Phoolka,Ludhiana,Punjab
He is a senior advocate of Delhi High Court,Human Rights activist,and author.
He is well known for spearheading the crusade to seek justice in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in New Delhi that followed the assassination of Indira Gandhi and resulted in the killing of approximately 2,733 Sikhs and displacement of over 50,000 Sikhs within 2 days.
Phoolka planned to move his residence to Chandigarh after the riots, but he learned that lawyers were needed to draft affidavits on behalf of the victims, and went to the Farsh Vihar relief camp to help. The sight of orphans, bereaved mothers and wives in the relief camp prompted the Phoolkas to change their plans. Instead of relocating to Chandigarh, they chose to stay and help the victims of the massacre.Since then, Phoolka has fought cases relentlessly for the victims despite government cover-up.
Phoolka, along with human rights activist and journalist Manoj Mitta, has written the first account of the 1984 Anti-Sikh massacre in the form of a book titled When a Tree Shook Delhi.
7) Meera sanyal,Mumbai South,Maharastra
She is one of India's leading Bankers, who announced her resignation from the post of CEO and Chairperson of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) India, to enter public life.
She is also on the international Board of Right to Play, a NGO that works with over one million children in more than 20 countries and uses the transformative power of play to educate and empower children facing adversity.
In 2011, Meera was invited by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to join the International Council on Women's Business Leadership (ICWBL) and took an active role in the Leadership sub-committee for the empowerment of women.
8) Lingraj, Bargarh, Odisha
He is a social activist. Lingaraj does not use his surname Pradhan as he opposes caste based identity and decided to do away with honorary titles.
Educated in JNU of Delhi in Sociology and influenced by Gandhi-Jayprakash-Lohia thoughts, he came into social activism. Thereafter he has been actively involved in the people's movements throughout Odisha ongoing against unilateral and unjust land acquisitions, handing over of the natural resources to corporate companies by governments and corruption issues affecting farmers and economically vulnerable sections.
He has been the editor of the ideological Oriya quarterly magazine "Bikalpa Vichar" since 2004.
He is one of the convener of "Paschim Odisha Krushak Samanwayan Samiti" (Western Odisha Farmers Coordination Committee)
He led Occupy Hirakud Movement : 18 Kilometer long Human Chain formation by participation of over 25000 people of Western Odisha over the public rights on water.
He was a full time activist in Samajwadi Jan Parishad from its establishment in 1995, and worked as its National General Secretary and National President till his joining in AAP 2014 January.
9) Anand Kumar, North East Delhi, Delhi
Anand Kumar is a sociologist and professor in Delhi’s Jawaharlal university.
He has completed his M.A from BHU , M.M. Phill from JNU and Ph. D. from University of Chicago.
As a professor he spent 11 years in BHU and 19 years in JNU.
Since his students days he had to go to jail several times for fighting for the causes related with education reforms, farmer's issues, youth unemployment and corruption.He began his political journey in 1964 with the inspiration from eminent socialist leader Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia and in the 70s received guidance from Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan.
10) Major Surendra Kumar Punia, Sikar, Rajasthan
Major Surendra Poonia represented India in Croatia, Spain and Turkey in 4 World Championships and won 21 medals including 8 Golds. He is the first Indian athlete with the rare distinction of having won medals in power-lifting and athletic events in four consecutive world championship. On Jan 26, 2012 ,he was felicitated by 'Vishisht Seva Medal by The Honorable President of India for his 'Distinguished Service of an Exceptional Order' in the field of sports.
11)Maruti Sahebraw Bhapkar, Maval, Maharashtra
A lone crusader who has long protested against the inability of the government to provide housing for slum dwellers, Maruti Bhapkar is one of the strongest voices against corruption in Maharashtra. A former independent municipal councillor, Maruti has been a vociferous RTI activist who has raised several pertinent questions on the SEZs in the Ratnagiri and Maval regions and led agitations by people displaced and affected by Lavasa. Maruti Bhapkar is the voice of hope that this nation needs, in an era when the nexus between the politicians and the land mafia threatens the life and livelihood of the rural populace.
12) Mukul tripathy, Farukkhabad, UP
For former scribe Mukul Tripathi, tragedy struck not once, not twice, but three times over.He studied and lived across cities in U.P. It was while in Allahabad in 1986 that he faced the first of three accidents. Though shocked and bed-ridden, he persisted and travelled to Moscow to pursue medical studies but only to face another accident there. On his return to U.P., tragically, he faced another accident, this time in Lucknow..
Subsequently, he discontinued medical studies and joined the journalism field in 1998, starting out as a reporter in Gorakhpur with Hindi daily Rashtriya Sahara, before working with Amar Ujala in Meerut, the place of his birth.
In 2009,he broke the lid of a racket on adulterated edible oil in the city. "The story led to the suspension of 12-13 officials and the story was followed up nationally". The same year, he won the Shresth Viklang Karmi Award for his campaigns for the physically challenged.
13) Anita Pratap, Ernakulam, Kerala
was India bureau chief for CNN till January 1999.
Covered all the major stories in the region including the nuclear tests, the ethnic war in Sri Lanka, the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, conflicts in India's Kashmir and North East and reported extensively from the line of control between India and Pakistan.
Was the first television journalist to report from the 22,000 ft Siachen Glacier, the highest battleground on earth, where Indian and Pakistani armies exchange fire almost daily.
Before joining CNN, worked eight years as a correspondent for TIME magazine.
In 1983, she interviewed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's (LTTE) chiefVelupillai Prabhakaran. This became the first ever interview Prabhakaran gave to the world in which he talked about his philosophies of establishing LTTE, of taking matters in his own hands rather than relying on government and of his plans ahead. Pratap was immediately recognized on an international level.
The character of Jaya, played by Nargis Fakhri in the 2013 Bollywood thriller,Madras Cafe is modeled on Anita Pratap. In the film, Jaya interviews LTF leader Anna Bhaskaran, who is in turn, modeled on Velupillai Prabhakaran.
Apart from journalism she is also a documentary filmaker and an author.
Books:
-Island of Blood: Front line reports from SriLanka, Afghanistan and other South Asian flash points
-Unsung, co-authored with Mahesh Bhatt
14) Sarah Joseph, Thrissur, Kerala.
Sarah Joseph is a novelist and short story writer in Malayalam.
she has been at the forefront of the feminist movement in Kerala and is the founder of Manushi – organisation of thinking women.
Her collection of short stories Paapathara is considered a milestone in feminist writing in 2011, Sarah won Muttathu Varkey Award for Paapathara.
She has published a trilogy of novel which includes, Aalahayude Penmakkal, Mattathi, and Othappu.
Her novel Aalahayude Penmakkal (Daughters of God the Father) won her three major awards the Kerala Sahitya Academy Award, the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award, and the Vayalar Award.
She has won much critical acclaim for her Ramayana Kathakal, a subversive reading of the Ramayana. This work has been translated into English and waspublished by Oxford University Press.
15) Dayamani Barla, Khunti, JharKhand.
Dayamani Barla is an indigenous tribal journalist and activist from the Indian state of Jharkhand. She came from very humble backgrounds and worked as a maid to pay her way through the University.
Barla works in a popular Hindi newspaper Prabhat Khabar to bring attention to myriad problems facing the Munda people and other tribal communities in the Jharkhand region. She is the National President of Indian Social Action ForumINSAF. Earlier her journalistic work was supported by a small fellowship for some years by Association for India's Development(AID).
She became notable for her activism in opposing Arcelor Mittal's steel plant that tribal activist say would displace forty (40) villages.
Barla won the Counter Media Award for Rural Journalism in 2000 and the National Foundation for India Fellowship in 2013, she was conferred the Ellen L. Lutz Indigenous Rights Award instituted by Cultural Survival, an international NGO.
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