Priti Kinar, the 41-year-old transgender candidate fielded by Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) in the Bhorey constituency, has suddenly caught the limelight ahead of the upcoming Bihar Assembly election.

She faces a tough battle, as she is pitted against sitting Janata Dal (United) MLA Sunil Kumar, currently the State Education Minister and a former IPS officer. However, anti-incumbency sentiments and the voters’ anger against the poor education situation in the constituency and in the State may help Ms. Kinar’s case.

She is quite popular in her constituency in Gopalganj district, but reaching her village of Kalyanpur is a nightmare journey along at least 20 km of dilapidated roads from Mirganj. Passengers travelling the route are livid, noting that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Ku

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