By 2007, when Mumtaj got involved with the BSP, she had grown out of the guru’s wings. She’d been “assigned” four villages of Bhucho area from where only she or her designated “mahants” could collect the “wadhai”. Mumtaj Bholi during her election campaign in Nathana village on Wednesday. It’s a first for a transgender in at least the last two assembly polls for which data is available. I want to make our identity our strength — the shared identity of Dalits, mahants and all other oppressed classes,” she says.

Source: Hindustan Times January 25, 2017 16:45 UTC