Raigad gets its first transgender Mayor

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The News Minute | January 4, 2014 | 11.27 am IST A transgender woman may have set a record, after becoing Mayor of Raigad, beating her closest opponents from two national parties with a good margin. According to a report in Nayi Duniya, Madhu Kinnar who contested the Raigad Nagar Nigam elections as an independent beat her opponents from the Congress and BJP to become the Mayor. She won by a margin of 9500 votes. She has promised to work for the all round development of the town. The report says that this is the first time that a person of the Kinnar community, a transgender, has won elections in the state. Photo Coourtesy: Nayi Duniya Tweet

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