Punjab Election 2022: Meet AAP's Jeevan Jyot Kaur, giant-killer who defeated Sidhu and Majithia
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Jeevan Jyot Kaur definitely emerged as the giant killer.Kaur said that Punjab has overcome identity politics. Thanking the voters for giving AAP and the "tried and tested Delhi model" of Arvind Kejriwal a chance, she said, "It's the victory of the people of Punjab. My ticket was announced around December 30... Got positive indication during door-to-door campaigns that Punjab has overcome identity politics."Kaur is popularly known as “pad woman” – even her Twitter bio refers to her as so – since she used to run a programme under which woman prison inmates were provided sanitary napkins in jails across Punjab. The 50-year-old was born in Hoshiarpur and has been a philanthropist for the larger part of life. Mocking parties over vendetta politics, she said that AAP is not here to do politics "but to change the politics" and therefore, talks about issues and not personal rivalries."People have voted for a change. I believe that a leader becomes big through their work, but they (big leaders) have not even done the minutest of people's work. When we would go for door-to-door campaigns, people would say that we don't see the large elephants, we just see jhadu," she said. Sharing her vision for the constituency, Kaur said that several issues such as cleanliness, water availability and drugs are among the major and initial issues she`d like to deal with. "I consider this as an opportunity to work for the people, and as a social activist, I will help people in whatever way possible, especially the health and education sector," she added while saying that it is good to be a part of good politics.