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Giant Killer! BJP s Chandana Bauri, wife of daily wager, beats TMC heavyweight in Saltora
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Chandana Bauri from the Saltora Assembly seat in Bankura district of West Bengal scripted history by winning from here in the just concluded elections. She defeated TMC heavyweight Sontosh Kumar Mondal by a margin of more than 4,000 votes.
What makes Bauri s electoral success one of the historic wins in the polls is that she is a wife of a daily wager. The low-profile candidate invited praise from different quarters for her astounding performance.
Bauri s husband is a daily-waged mason. He earns Rs 400 daily. According to her election affidavit, Bauri has Rs 6,335 cash in her bank account while her husband s bank account has just Rs 1,561 cash.
BJP fielded Chandana Bauri, 30, from the Saltora constituency in Bengal.
Congratulatory tweets are pouring in for BJP s Chandana Bauri, the wife of a daily wage earner, who has won from the Saltora constituency in West Bengal. Chandana Bauri, 30, defeated Sontosh Kumar Mondal of Trinamool Congress by a margin of more than 4,000 votes. The win as many pointed out on Twitter - was made more inspiring by her humble beginnings.
According to her election affidavit, Ms Bauri, a mother of three, owns assets worth just Rs 31,985, while her husband s assets amount to Rs 30,311. Ms Bauri s husband is a daily wager who works as a mason. The couple owns three goats and three cows.