New Delhi : Confident about winning her maiden election from the prestigious Greater Kailash Assembly constituency, President Pranab Mukherjee’s daughter Sharmistha is going by her father’s valued advice of putting in “hard work” and “being patient”.
“My father only told me that when you have joined politics it’s a tough road ahead and you really have to work hard and you have to be patient. I am just keeping these words in mind,” Sharmistha, who is fighting on a Congress ticket, told PTI.
49-year-old Sharmistha is second among the three children of the President to join politics. Earlier, her elder brother Abhijit joined Congress, debuting from Nalhati Assembly constituency of West Bengal in 2011 and later became an MP from Jangipur Lok Sabha constituency which was vacated by his father after being elected as President.
The Greater Kailash seat was bagged by Aam Aadmi Party’s Sourav Bharadwaj in the 2013 Assembly election by polling 43,097 votes against BJP’s 30,005 votes. Congress had managed a third position with 19,641 votes. However, Mukherjee said this time it will be a two-cornered fight between her party and BJP. She said, “You know, wherever I am going people are asking me how are you going to counter the Modi wave, nobody asked me how are you going to counter Sourav Bharadwaj.
