<p>The 39-year-old Aam Aadmi Party MLA Bandana Kumari is one of the three women who was sworn in on the first day of the Delhi Assembly Wednesday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Her caller tune is ‘Kuch kar dikhana hai... Brastachar mitana hai (we have to prove ourselves; we have to eradicate corruption)’.<br /><br />After her successful debut with AAP, she thinks her self-belief has increased. “Women are generally afraid of politics because it is looked at pejoratively. I hope that women’s role in politics would increase,” she said.<br /><br />Bandana won by a margin of more than 10,000 votes. She contested against Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Ravinder Nath Bansal, who could have made a hat-trick by winning from Shalimar Bagh. <br /><br />“I have worked in my community for the past 11-12 years as a social worker,” said Bandana, indicating that she wasn’t associated with any political party. <br /><br />She recently met junior engineers to talk about sewage problem in her locality. Security is another problem that concerns her. <br /><br />“The parks in some areas, especially urban villages of Shalimar Bagh, are not safe,” she said. <br /><br />She thinks that door-to-door campaigning has worked in her favour. “People in the slums already knew me since my days as a social worker, but still I went there twice-thrice,” said Bandana, who worked for women’s rights and handled cases of domestic violence while working for a non-government organisation. <br /><br />She said that her husband, who works for a computer networking firm, played a supportive role. “Fighting against liquor and cash distribution by opposing parties was very difficult,” she said, pointing out her biggest challenge during the election campaign. <br /><br />Her son attends a boarding school in Pilani. She said that it helped her to concentrate on elections.<br /><br />On New Year day after the swearing-in ceremony at the Assembly, she attended several meetings in her constituency with government officials, her husband said.<br /></p>
<p>The 39-year-old Aam Aadmi Party MLA Bandana Kumari is one of the three women who was sworn in on the first day of the Delhi Assembly Wednesday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Her caller tune is ‘Kuch kar dikhana hai... Brastachar mitana hai (we have to prove ourselves; we have to eradicate corruption)’.<br /><br />After her successful debut with AAP, she thinks her self-belief has increased. “Women are generally afraid of politics because it is looked at pejoratively. I hope that women’s role in politics would increase,” she said.<br /><br />Bandana won by a margin of more than 10,000 votes. She contested against Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Ravinder Nath Bansal, who could have made a hat-trick by winning from Shalimar Bagh. <br /><br />“I have worked in my community for the past 11-12 years as a social worker,” said Bandana, indicating that she wasn’t associated with any political party. <br /><br />She recently met junior engineers to talk about sewage problem in her locality. Security is another problem that concerns her. <br /><br />“The parks in some areas, especially urban villages of Shalimar Bagh, are not safe,” she said. <br /><br />She thinks that door-to-door campaigning has worked in her favour. “People in the slums already knew me since my days as a social worker, but still I went there twice-thrice,” said Bandana, who worked for women’s rights and handled cases of domestic violence while working for a non-government organisation. <br /><br />She said that her husband, who works for a computer networking firm, played a supportive role. “Fighting against liquor and cash distribution by opposing parties was very difficult,” she said, pointing out her biggest challenge during the election campaign. <br /><br />Her son attends a boarding school in Pilani. She said that it helped her to concentrate on elections.<br /><br />On New Year day after the swearing-in ceremony at the Assembly, she attended several meetings in her constituency with government officials, her husband said.<br /></p>
