GAURI SAWANT: FIRST TRANSGENDER ELECTION AMBASSADOR
March 21, 2019
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has appointed transgender social activist Gauri Sawant from Mumbai, as one of the 12 election ambassadors from Maharashtra. With this, Gauri Sawant has become the first transgender election ambassador.
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During 2004 and 2009 Lok Sabha elections there was no record of transgender voters.
Following the Supreme Court order, transgenders got the right to vote for the first time in 2014.
In 2014, 918 voters were registered in this third category. This number has doubled in five years and now it is 2,086.
According to the Election Commission, Gauri Sawant's appointment would help in more people from this category getting registered during the final phase of voters enrollment.
Election Commission has nominated the renowned sportsmen, film-makers, literary personalities of the respective constituencies as the goodwill ambassadors to induce more voters to vote in the Lok Sabha elections.
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