Candidates want to use their skills for Sangam city’s development
ALLAHABAD: Eager to use their qualification in developing their city and making people aware of their rights and duties, many well educated professionals are trying their luck in the upcoming civic polls here.
These include lawyers, engineers and journalists among others who are busy wooing voters these days for the November 26 polls.
Salil Srivastava, a mayoral candidate of the Aam Admi Party (AAP), is a lawyer by profession and a former Aligarh Muslim University student.
Talking to HT, he said very few people were aware of their legal and political rights. He thought his professional degree will help him make people legally and politically aware so that no one can cheat them. Highlighting his priorities, Srivastava said issues like insanitation, sewage, drains, streetlights, road, water and garbage disposal would be addressed on priority if people gave him a chance to do so.
Rajesh Kumar Upadhyay, who holds diploma in mechanical engineering from Institute of Engineering and Rural Technology (IERT), Allahabad, is also in the fray.
He said the system of development was literally based on technology and only a professional or expert of the field could understand it and help address the same in the best possible way.
Listing out his priorities, he said his priority as a mayor, if he won, would be to address issues like waterlogging and cattle menace. “I will be using my qualification and skills to find out best possible solutions to these problems,” Upadhyay added.
Similarly, Samajwadi Party’s mayoral candidate Vinod Chandra Dubey is a senior lawyer by profession and ex student of Allahabad University (AU) who was the president of the Allahabad University Students’ Union in 1967. He had also contested for the mayor’s post on the party’s ticket in 2007.
“My priority after winning will be to work for the development of Sangam city. I will ensure that no denizen or historical places get affected in this process. Those coming to me for legal advice or any other help will be given the same on priority,” he promised.
Ratan Dixit, an aspiring corporator from ward number 19 of the Allahabad Nagar Nigam (ANN), is an AU graduate and a journalist by profession.
Dixit, who is trying to get elected the third time after from the same locality from where he won in 1989 and 2001, said his passion to serve people forced him to contest the election. Family members of Dixit, a former president of Allahabad News Reporter’s Club, have been contesting the civic polls since 1989.