By G Saravanan
Published in The New Indian Express, Chennai on October 12, 2011:
CHENNAI: Making a strong pitch for their political recognition in the comparatively conservative metropolis, a city-based transgender has thrown her hat in the local body polls, contesting for the Councillor post in Ward 104 – Purasaiwalkam.
Jothivel Samy Amma (55), founder of Chennai Aravanigal Munnetra Maruvazhvu Trust, is contesting as an independent. “My entry into politics is a move to pitch for a political recognition to transgender community,” she told Express.Besides working for the uplift of transgenders via her trust, Jothivel is also involved in social service activities like organising decent burial to unclaimed bodies collected from Government Hospitals.“Since 2001, we have given decent burial to about 1600 unclaimed bodies and it was an act to show our social commitment towards society,” she added. Jothivel, who is in the fray with table lamp symbol, has a vision to develop the newly carved out Ward-104, after merging parts of three different wards in Purasaiwalkam.“If elected, my immediate priority would be the corrective steps to eradicate rainwater stagnation and mosquito menace in Purasai locality,” she said.
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