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Rising to the occasion The Bahujan Samaj Party has fielded K. Naghadas, a differently-abled person, as its candidate for the Thyagaraja Nagar constituency in Chennai. A resident of Ashok Nagar, Mr. Naghadas says he is contesting because he thinks a person with disability needs to be elected to the Assembly. He says he has noticed “a lot of sympathy” during his campaign, “but I am not sure if it will be transformed into votes.” Mr. Naghadas had to climb two flights of stairs at the zonal office in Kodambakkam to file his nomination papers earlier this week. Undeterred by the lack of elevators or ramps, he used his crutches to climb up to the conference room. On his way down, he handed them over to a party worker and walked down without assistance. [Am cutting the remaining part as it will go off topic. The link of the complete news is available here.] http://www.hindu.com/2011/04/03/stories/2011040355251700.htm -- Easy tips for improving English at shadablucknow.blogspot.com My contributions to the press http://shadablucknow.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-contributions-to-press.html#links Shadab Husain interviews Danny Bloom shdb101.blogspot.com Many posts on one page http://shadablucknow.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2008-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&updated-max=2009-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=30 To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
