Lucknow: Samajwadi Party Leader Roopali Dixit has stated that it took her just three minutes to convince Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav to give her a ticket for contesting assembly elections from Fatehabad. Her pitch to the party included the grudge she had against the Bhartiya Janta Party.
She has a grudge over a BJP candidate amid a video clip of the leader insulting her father, who is in Jail amid the allegations of a murder.
While seeking to avenge the ‘insult’, she said that she does not believes in the casteism, and wants transparent and perfect allocation in the government schemes for the poor from all communities.
“I met Samajwadi President president Akhilesh Yadav and he asked me what I wanted. I said I want to fight against the BJP candidate, Chhotelal Verma, because of the objectionable comment, and I also promise you that I will win this seat,” Ms Dixit, who had earlier tried to get the nomination from the BJP, told PTI.
To give her the ticket, the Samajwadi Party dumped another candidate they had earlier chosen. The candidate now chosen is a 34-Year-Old Law Graduate, who also holds two postgraduate degrees from universities in the United Kingdom.
A graduate from Symbiosis in Pune, she went abroad for an MBA from Cardiff University and an MA in marketing and advertising from University of Leeds. Ms Dixit then worked with a multinational firm in Dubai for three years.
Her father Ashok Dixit, who once fought an election on the SP ticket, is now 75 and in jail since 2007.
When he, her uncle and three other relatives were sentenced to life imprisonment in 2015 by a Firozabad court for the murder of school teacher Suman Dubey, she decided to quit the MNC job and return.
Ashok Dixit, was once called as “bahubali”, or a muscleman, fought the elections on SP ticket first in 1996, and in 2002 as Bhaujan Samaj Party Candidate. In 2007 he fought as an independent candidate, before his arrest. He had lost all the three elections.
“After a single call from my father, I came back to India in 2015 to manage my family and its business,” Roopali Dixit said. Being back home she studied law secured a degree, to help her father in the case against him.
She said that she made Fatehabad, her ‘karmabhoomi’, to fulfill her fathers dream.
Mr Dixit tried her luck first with the Bharatiya Janata Party.
“After my return, I began working for my constituency and meeting people. I also joined the BJP in 2017 and campaigned for its candidate Jitendra Verma, who even won the elections,” she said.
This time, she tried to get a ticket for herself but the BJP picked a man who she alleged had called her father names.
“I was very disturbed when the BJP fielded Chhotelal Verma, a former MLA from the Fatehabad seat in this election,” she said.
“After that, I was determined to teach him a lesson and contest against him to avenge the insult to my father and people of the Thakur community,” she said.
“After my ticket was finalised for the seat, I have been visiting and meeting my people in every village of the constituency. I aim to bring transparency and provide benefits of government schemes to everyone, whether they support me or not,” she said.
“In my constituency, girls who want to study in Agra city are not able to travel due to transportation problems. I would solve this issue. I want to encourage youth to be educated and become self-dependent,” she added.
Stray cattle destroying crops is another problem in the area, she said.
“My aim would be to work for all, just as the district collector does. I won’t work as an MLA, I will work as a DM,” she promised.
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