: Twenty-two-year-old Abhishek Bidhuri became a municipal councillor on Tuesday, after campaigning for the by-election for Tekhand ward in between final-year undergraduate exams.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate beat the BJP’s Sunil Kumar Verma by 1,555 votes to get elected the ward councillor for Tekhand in the South Delhi Municipal Corporation.
Another exam on Friday
The youngest winner is enrolled as a student at Delhi University’s PG DAV College (evening) in B.A. Political Science.
He said that he joined the AAP’s student wing, the Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti (CYSS), because he wanted to work towards cleaning up student politics. “After that I joined the AAP because I believed in their cause of ridding our institutions of corruption. As a councillor, my goal will be to stop corruption,” he said.
But, before he embarks on his new political career, there is the small matter of giving the last exam on Friday.
“I had exams last week during the campaigning, and the last one is on Friday,” he said.
The son of a government school teacher and a housewife, Mr. Bidhuri said he would focus on problems of his ward by regularly interacting with residents.
