A software engineer in Tamil Nadu is contesting the polls as an independent from the Karur constituency in the Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2016. His main drive to contest the elections is to make a cleaner and greener Tamil Nadu, as reported by The New Indian Express.

The 30-year-old software programmer, S Chakravarthy, is already employed in a leading software company in Chennai. He wants to do something about the rising industrial pollution in the region.

He is also the recipient of the President’s Rajya Purashkar Award for excelling in Scout and Guides while he was studying in Class IX.

Chakravarthy is a part of ‘Ilaignar Kootamaipu’ (Youth Collective), an unregistered organisation of professionals in the state. Ilaignar Kootamaipu has fielded 115 candidates across the state in the Assembly election. Apart from campaigning for blood donation, he also assists blind children to read Braille scripts on the weekend.