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Meera H Sanyal
Meera H Sanyal is a well known banking professional in India , who has announced her candidature in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls from the Mumbai South Constituency. On being asked her reasons for this brave step, she stated that as a citizen of India and a resident of Mumbai, she has been a witness to the steady decline of the city in spite of it being a treasure trove of talent and entrepreneurship. She had for the longest time wanted to do something about it, bring about positive changes in infrastructure and policy to make it the world class city that it has the potential to be. The recent traumatic events in Mumbai were the trigger that helped her to cement her resolve and take the decision to fight the 2009 General Elections from the constituency of South Mumbai. She was apparently inspired to do so by the strong reaction of the general population after the 26/11 Terror attacks in Mumbai, when the people poured out into the streets to protest the fact that they have been taken for granted for the longest time, demanding answers from the powers that be.
Sarath Babu
E Sarath Babu of Madipakkam in Chennai seems to have achieved everything. The owner of the successful FoodKing Catering Services Pvt Ltd, he has a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from BITS, Pilani, and a management degree from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.General election 2009 And, now he is contesting the Lok Sabha elections as an independent candidate from Chennai south seat. He has chosen the constituency as it is his home ground and also 90% of the electorate are educated.
Mallika Sarabhai
Mallika Sarabhai announced to contest against BJP’s prime ministerial candidate L K Advani from the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat. She will be contesting as an independent candidate. Congress spokesperson made it clear that she is not the congress's candidate nevertheless speculation made that congress high command has asked state unit to support her candidature.In a reply to question, she said she had neither personally approached the Congress nor did it offer to make her its candidate for present election (i.e. 2009), however in past she has received many offer from congress to contest election, the first in 1984 from Rajiv Gandhi. She described her candidature as Satyagraha against politics of hatred.
Capt GR Gopinath
India's aviation entrepreneur Capt GR Gopinath is set to take the political plunge. He will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections Capt GR Gopinath either from Bangalore South or Bangalore Central constituencies as an independent.
Dr Tirumala Raya Halemane
Dr Tirumala Raya Halemane who quit the Rutgers University at Piscataway in New Jersey, has now returned to his home town in Mangalore after 37 years and is all set for general elections, 2009. He is contesting as an independent candidate from the newly-formed Dakshin Kannada constituency (earlier Mangalore).
Dr Sailen Kumar Ghosh
A retired food technologist of Baba Automic Research Centre (BARC) Dr Sailen Kumar Ghosh is contesting this year's Lok Sabha elections as an independent from the South-Central Mumbai constituency.To bring in more accountabiltiy of Indian scientific community, to change or modify the Service Conduct Rule and to establish a scientists' rights commission are some of the issues on which Ghosh is contesting the polls.
Begum Shehnaz Sidrat
Begum Shehnaz Sidrat, president of Bazm-e-Khawateen which is a 75-year-old outfit for Muslim women empowerment, filed her nomination for Lucknow seat with a premonition of a stinging fatwa from city clerics weighing on her mind. The “objectionably bold step” had already drawn dark threats from Muslim Majlis and half a dozen minority leaders some of whom personally made calls to make Sidrat realise her station in life. Politics, she was told, was not for a purdah nasheen (veiled woman) and as an office-bearer of the reputed Bazm-e-Khawateen, she was expected to confine herself to social causes only.


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